 On September 15 , 1961 , Time magazine devoted its cover to Salinger . In an article that profiled his " life of recluse " , the magazine reported that the Glass family series " is nowhere near completion ... Salinger intends to write a Glass trilogy . " Nonetheless , Salinger published only one other story after that : " Hapworth 16 , 1924 " , a novella in the form of a long letter from seven @-@ year @-@ old Seymour Glass while at summer camp . His first new work in six years , the novella took up most of the June 19 , 1965 , issue of The New Yorker , and was universally critically panned . Around this time , Salinger had isolated Claire from friends and relatives and made her — in the words of Margaret Salinger — " a virtual prisoner " . Claire separated from him in September 1966 ; their divorce was finalized on October 3 , 1967 . 
