J.D. Salinger's former lover speaks out after 60 years 

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tbf she looked much older

And the 18 year old that he sought out in 1972

Back then marrying young (pubescent) girls was the norm. My Grandma married at 16 and my Grandfather was almost 30. He's also one of the best men I've met in my life. Times change

Soyboy Redditor it was definitely not the norm, just normal for weirdos who couldn’t find wives their own age

@@KingBowserVlog your grandma's a victim

@voicegirl555 From what I know, Margaret was left out of the will for writing a memoir while her father was still alive. Even worse, when she was ill and needed money for medical care, he sent her a fistful of Christian Science pamphlets about self-healing. And when she became pregnant with her son, he urged her to abort. (She didn’t.)

She became an interfaith christian minister & has taught theology at a university graduate program. She wrote a book about being Salingers daughter.

@@timgreenglass Thank you for the information. I hope that Margaret has a happy life.

Thats called grooming its just as bad lmao

He was attracted to innocence. It’s apparent in his stories. She turned 18, he no longer saw her as an innocent child, he had sex with her and left

Um, no. He groomed her for several years, and he very possibly was attracted to children in unwholesome ways. Maybe he was molested himself as a child. But this is not complex.

@@alteredcatscyprus It is, there are numerous writings about this moment. Its very interesting the way he saw his work but mostly would get rid of anyone who got in the way of it, including his own children.

@@morganwhite2176 We still have no evidence that he was working…on anything but letters to more young girls 🤷🏻‍♀

@@alteredcatscyprus The documentary that aired went into detail on it. He was finishing something and got the idea that she was putting herself in front of his work, by her laughing when the plane was delayed. Eccentric no doubt.

@@morganwhite2176 I read she wanted children, he didn’t. He was probably working on letters to new teenage girls. Until we see the work, we just don’t know it existed. Maybe it did, maybe it didn’t. I don’t know. He lived his life like a rockstar, it seems to me. He wrote enough to get fame and status enough to easily lure young women. I think he would have preferred them even younger, but feared for his public image. He could only handle women young enough to idealize him the way he idealized himself. He could not handle a mature woman with her own needs who could see the real him. Not a protector of innocence after all, but a wolf. It was his own self image he was trying to protect from intrusion. He built a kingdom where he could banish anyone who saw the grown man he couldn’t bear facing being, and whose mature urges and needs he couldn’t control.

Mike C. Please....

He just really hated being fake and tolerating people and took his rejections personally.. He wasn't the type to promote something on the today show. It's horrifying for some to not be able or want to have to deal with people but have to be forced to live a life where you have to

EL Donjuan I am JD Salinger.

Far from it. He never wrote about himself and did what he loved in total private. The media and public never forgave him for denying them his attention.

@@GitanoRenegado Yes Pedos do like their Privacy

She was 19.

@@lorivought2546 and how old was he at this time?

@@normadesmond6017 35, if he was 30 when they first started talking when she was 14.

@@lorivought2546 I think it is weird for a man in his mid-thirties hooking up with a girl who's 19. I really do.

@@normadesmond6017 It is. It's what I like to call the "Just legal enough that they're fair game AND still wet behind the ears" tactic

Fred Sanderson did she say withering? I was pretty sure she did I had to play back a couple of times Embarrassing

She said "Wuthering Heights." She just didn't put extra emphasis on the "u" in an attempt to sound pretentious, as I'm sure you do.

She's abt 77 here. Give her a break. The fact that she remembers what book it was at all is impressive enough.

@@lizipearlvlogs Nonsense, a lot of old people still have good memory.

@@PiroKUSS That is true, but as someone with an elderly dad, sometimes he'll have little blooper moments. Besides, all people make mistakes. It's not fair to be so cruel to someone just because of a simple mispronunciation.

He wrote letters to you, too?

Are you sure?

Or is he?

He died at 2010.

what do you mean by that?