After receiving incredible success with The Catcher in the Rye in 1951 – still required reading for any high school English curriculum – and publishing three other books, including Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey, author J.D. Salinger’s publishing career came to a screeching halt in the mid-60’s. “Hapworth 16, 1924,” a short story published in The New Yorker in 1965, was the last work the author published in his lifetime. Salinger died in 2010, leaving questions as to what would happen to any remaining unpublished work – if there was any remaining work at all.
But according to his son Matt Salinger, the author never stopped writing – and generated “a lot of material” over the years, he told The Guardian recently in an exclusive interview.
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