Whit Burnett responsible for Catcher in the Rye?

[mjp]

Interesting article about J.D. Salinger's war years, and a little detail about Burnett that I was unaware of until I read this...

If you want to read the entire article, here it is.



Oh, it's from the February Vanity Fair.

 

[Hosh]

I am an unapologetic fan of Salinger, and Catcher. I hope much of the unpublished writing that was supposedly done over the years someday sees print. Also very cool to see another small connection to Bukowski via Burnett. A guy who saw the talent in both Salinger & Bukowski long before the rest--he clearly had a pretty sharp eye.

 

[cirerita]

Burnett did exactly the same thing with B. B. sent Burnett lots of stories, and Burnett tried to talk B. into writing a novel...