As an intelligence officer and saw the horrors of the concentration camps firsthand, and many of his early stories deal with the trauma of war. Salinger's own war experience was highly traumatic. His are the only ones that move me anyway.' Sainger writes that he once ran into Remarque but said nothing: 'I don't think its possible for one writer to pay another an acceptable compliment,' writes Salinger, adding a typical Caulfield remark- 'something always comes out wrong.' It was very rare for Salinger to comment on the war. I think his war books and postwar rubble books are better than anyone's.

I took an old copy of Three Comrades out to my son's shelter in the snow I'd forgotten what a beautiful, touching book it is. He writes, 'I think Erich Maria Remarque is published by Little Brown- I know he used to be at any rate. When the contract was up with Signet, Little, Brown got the rights to the paperback edition, which Salinger refers to when he notes that he's glad about 'the arrangements.' Salinger goes on to write about Erich Maria Remarque, author of the antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Salinger's relationship with Signet was actually quite strained, thanks to his deep dislike for Signet's illustrated paperback cover of Catcher in the Rye, showing Holden Caulfield in his red cap. Salinger was in the final stretch of the publication of Franny and Zooey, which would come out in July 1961, and writes that he will miss socializing with Signet editor Victor Weybright. Little, Brown published both Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey for Salinger. Typed letter signed 'Jerry' addressed to his editor 'Ned' Bradford at Little, Brown. Salinger, famous American author of Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey.

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