 In addition to having a character named "Ray Kinsella" in the short story "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All", Salinger had also used the surname in "The Catcher in the Rye" (Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella).Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in "Shoeless Joe" and intimated he would sue should the character "J.D.Salinger" appear in any other medium, should "Shoeless Joe" be adapted.