 A year later , Salinger 's daughter Margaret , by his second wife Claire Douglas , published Dream Catcher : A Memoir . In her book , she described the harrowing control that Salinger had over her mother and dispelled many of the Salinger myths established by Ian Hamilton 's book . One of Hamilton 's arguments was that Salinger 's experience with post @-@ traumatic stress disorder left him psychologically scarred , and that he was unable to deal with the traumatic nature of his war service . Salinger allowed that " the few men who lived through Bloody Mortain , a battle in which her father fought , were left with much to sicken them , body and soul " , but she also painted a picture of her father as a man immensely proud of his service record , maintaining his military haircut and service jacket , and moving about his compound ( and town ) in an old Jeep . 
