J.D. Salinger’s Home to Become Residency for Cartoonists

September 15, 2016

A room in Salinger's house

J.D. Salinger fans, rejoice: the reclusive author’s old house in Cornish, New Hampshire, will become a residency for cartoonists in early 2017.

The New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss recently bought the house, where the late author lived from 1953 to 1967, before he divorced his ex-wife, Claire. The house was sold in 1983 before it went on the market again in 2014.

Salinger’s home will house the first “Cornish Cartoon Residency” in February 2017, via the Center for Cartoon Studies. The organization is accepting applications through November 1; the residency comes with a $600 stipend and a talk at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. The resident is also required to have a four-wheel drive vehicle and to be willing to shovel snow from walkways.

The house has a rather surprising feature. According to the Los Angeles Times, a tunnel links the house to the accompanying garage studio apartment.

“The tunnel, well built and spacious, was carpeted; the garage was carpeted too,” said Sarah Larson, who details the story in a piece for the New Yorker. The first floor of the garage has also been converted into a cartoon-art gallery.

 

Photo Credit: Harry Bliss.

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