J.D. Salinger Stories, Previously Unpublished, Leaked Online [VIDEO]
Three previously unpublished stories written by the notoriously reclusive J.D. Salinger were leaked online Thanksgiving Day in an eBay auction.
According to The Huffington Post, the stories, which were PDF scans of the originals, were being sold as a, illegally published collection titled Three Stories before it was noticed and later disseminated by a Reddit user who goes by throwaway____3849.
The three stories were Paula, Birthday Boy, and The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, a precursor to Salinger's most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye.
The precursor centers around the death of Holden Caulfield's brother, Kenneth (Allie in the finished novel). Salinger chose not to publish it as planned in Harper's Bazaar, and instead housed it at the Princeton Library, where only a limited number of scholars were granted access to it.
It is unclear how they ended up online.
Because Salinger was a very reclusive person, much hype has been made about his known existing, unpublished works. This past summer, the film Salinger announced that five stories by the author would be published posthumously between 2015 and 2020.
Salinger, who died in 2010, didn't publish several of his stories because he wasn't seeking the attention that came with them, and was writing solely for himself. Paula, which was included in the illegal collection, is an unpolished, unfinished work which Salinger himself described as his both his first and last horror story.
Catcher in the Rye remains as Salinger's single published one-story novel.
