 Salinger published Franny and Zooey in 1961 , and Raise High the Roof Beam , Carpenters and Seymour : An Introduction in 1963 . Each book contained two short stories or novellas , previously published in The New Yorker , about members of the Glass family . These four stories were originally published between 1955 and 1959 , and were the only ones Salinger had published since Nine Stories . On the dust jacket of Franny and Zooey , Salinger wrote , in reference to his interest in privacy : " It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer 's feelings of anonymity @-@ obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years . " 
