Eremite Boyfriend Salinger Er Uh Myt Noun Hermit Religious Recluse

"Poor Joyce Maynard. Not since Martina Hingis submarined a serve to Steffi Graf in the French Open has a woman been so universally excoriated for underhanded conduct. And all Maynard did was sell a bunch of mash notes she had saved from a boyfriend of 27 years ago to raise college tuition for her children. Except that the boyfriend happened to be J.D. Salinger -- the eremite of Cornish, N.H." - Mark Leyner; How to Avoid Salinger Syndrome; Time (New York); Jul 5, 1999.