this is the last known image jerry salinger. >> rose: people made to get a photograph it's astonishing. to tell you one story, it's a great story. news week, time and life magazine were all assigned to go big cover stories of salinger in 1960, 61. life and news week ran their stories but couldn't get a photo of salinger. so life magazine said to ted russell, they pulled him out of a photo assignment at the un, sent him down to cornish, can you get a photograph of j.d. salinger. this is a writer in 1961 and this is unheard of. >> rose: like greta, garbo. >> ted russell sat in the cold and rain for three days in the bushes waiting for salinger and that's where he signals that legendary photo of him which is in the film and the book and really perfectly captures salinger's private world. >> rose: joyce maynard. i spent a long time composing my response to j.d. salinger's letter on my yellow legal pad. it's like a piece of carbon paper and second sheet underneath. dear mr. salinger i will remember your advice every day of my life. i read your letter hover and over and carried it in my pock

one was the glass family who were fictional but very much real to jerry salinger and the other were claire, margaret and matthew, who did not get to see their father because he would be locked away in a bunker. now margaret salinger says -- >> rose: a bunker meaning a building outside. >> margaret salinger had one childhood in that house and matthew salinger had another childhood. to be to fair to salinger matthew salinger has always said and always maintain, and it would be unfair for me not to point out that jerry salinger was a wonderful father that many of the stories told by his sister margaret were untrue and not representative of his childhood. so to be fair to point out both sides of that story. but he's working -- >> rose: so many hours alone out there. >> when he was working he required true and total isolation to produce the work that he did. >> rose: but he wrote every day. >> he wrote every day by his own account. in 1974 when he called the "new york times," by the way a very unreclusive thing to do, if you're a true recluse you don't call the "new york times." >> rose: you ca

jerry salinger would say to me, a young girl, "do you believe in god?"ever talked to you like that before. >> no adult had ever talked to me like that. not only, that no adult ever listened to me. >> what do you think he was attracted to? >> my innocence, my guilelessness. >> salinger never spoke about his service in world war ii with miller. >> this is the supreme moment of invasion. >> but on d-day he landed at utah beach, later saw action during the battle of the bulge and visited a nazi death camp. >> world war ii is the ghost in the machine of all of j.d. salinger's stories. >> salinger was hospitalized for battle fatigue. solnero believes he never really recovered. >> it's fascinating because world world war ii made him as an artist and broke him as man. >> the author's last published work appeared in "the new yorker" in 1965. >> i've heard he has his man scripts locked in a safe. >> but the documentary and a companion book assert salinger was, in fact, writing all those years since and that he left major new works to be published beginning in 2015

jerry salinger would say to me, a young girl, "do you believe in god?" in that way and further no adult had ever listened to me. >> reporter: why do you think he was attracted to you? >> myfulness, and any guileness. >> reporter: she says that their relationship ended after she made love to him for the first time. >> i saw a glass curtain come down. just come down. i just knew it was all over. >> reporter: she would see him fleetingly only one more time. >> he once said to me, if you ever lose track of me, just read my stories. >> reporter: now it appears that the reclusive author has made sure that we'll be keeping track of him for some time to come. >>> shane salerno's documentary says that he left five more books to be publish ed as early as 2015 including new material expanding on the material of the "catcher and the rye's holden,,, ,, >>> this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >>> good morning everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. we have headlines on this tuesday morning t.new span on the bay bridge opened last night after 10:00. now we're getting into the

who attempted to adapt his work, but do you see me shake, jerry so now i present to you a dramatic reading of stephen colbert's j.d. salinger's the catcher in the try. let me just get into character with my scarf, my red hunting cap, and my caulfield catcher in the try, i think that is the kind of book caulfield would carry around. here we go. chapter 1. if you really want to hear -- ♪ >> i would like to apologize to the estate of j.d. salinger. his publishers at little brown and company, and, of course, patrick stewart, whose performance as phoebe will now never be seen. >> this here. sign this here, and right there. okay. thank you very much. of course, as popular as catcher in the rye is, it is not that good of a book. when we return, my guest author tobias wolff will dash himself on the rocks of my certainty. we will be right back. [ cheers and applause >> stephen colbert presents, the c-olbert book club, tonight's selection. >> everything but catcher in the rye, by j.d. salinger. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. the c-olbert book club! thanks so much! j.d. salinger, of course, is best known fo