 An unintended consequence of the lawsuit was that many details of Salinger 's private life , including that he had spent the last twenty years writing , in his words , " Just a work of fiction ... That 's all " , became public in the form of court transcripts . Excerpts from his letters were also widely disseminated , most notably a bitter remark written in response to Oona O 'Neill 's marriage to Charlie Chaplin : 
