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Glass Family Chronology
Page numbers reference the 1991 Little, Brown and Company paperback editions of Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction. “Hapworth 16, 1924” references correspond to their locations in the June 19 1965 edition of The New Yorker containing that story.
1917:
- Seymour Glass is born in February (“Zooey” 181-182).
1919:
- Webb G. “Buddy” Glass is born (“Hapworth” 112).
1921:
- Bessie Glass gives birth to the twins, Walt and Waker (“Hapworth” 80).
1921-3:
- The Glass Family tour Australia with their vaudeville act, “Gallagher and Glass”. During the tour, in 1922, Seymour takes a ride on Joe Jackson’s nickel-plated bicycle (“Seymour” 145-149).
1923:
- Upon returning home to New York after the vaudeville tour, Seymour begins a serious study of religion (“Hapworth” 88).
- Shortly after Christmas, Seymour has his first clairvoyant experience during which he glimpses the previous incarnations of himself and his brother, Buddy (“Hapworth" 50).
1924:
- Seymour and Buddy spend the summer at Camp Simon Hapworth, Maine
- July 16 – Seymour gashes his leg on a cart wheel while on a camp excursion. He receives eleven stitches but refuses anesthesia. The next day, Seymour begins his long letter to his family, written in the camp infirmary. (“Hapworth” 73).
1925:
- During the spring, Les and Bessie Glass retire from vaudeville. (“Seymour” 119).
1926:
- Seymour and Buddy race each other to the drug store (“Seymour” 211).
1927:
- Seymour and Buddy begin their appearances on the radio quiz show, “It’s a Wise Child” (“Carpenters” 7, “Zooey” 153).
- Seymour helps a neighbor, Charlotte Mayhew, secure a spot on “It’s a Wise Child” (“Carpenters” 81).
- Seymour instructs Buddy on how how to play marbles ( "Seymour” 202).
1928:
- Seymour becomes infatuated with Japanese and Chinese poetry. He begins to write his own poems, crafting one about John Keats (“Seymour” 122, 124).
1929:
- The Glasses move into their apartment in the East Seventies (“Zooey” 74).
- Zachary “Zooey” Glass is born (“Carpenters” 3).
- Seymour throws a stone at Charlotte Mayhew, disfiguring her (“Carpenters” 80)
1930:
- Seymour is examined by a group of Freudian psychologists (“Seymour” 98).
- Waker Glass receives a new bicycle from his parents and gives it away to a boy in Central Park (“Seymour” 205).
1932:
- Seymour , while only 15, enters Columbia University (“Carpenters” 26)
1933:
- Seymour makes a controversial comment about Abraham Lincoln on the radio and is thrown off “It’s a Wise Child.” In protest, Buddy also leaves the show (“Carpenters” 73-74).
1934:
- Franny Glass is born (“Carpenters” 3)
- Seymour reads a Taoist tale to the infant Franny (“Carpenters” 3).
1936:
- Seymour obtains his doctorate from Columbia University (“Seymour” 156).
- Seymour decides not to publish his poetry (“Seymour” 124).
1940:
- Buddy enrolls in a short story writing course taught by “Professor B” at Columbia University ("Seymour" 154).
- Seymour and Buddy move from their parents’ house into an apartment on 79 th Street (“ Seymour” 160).
- Seymour tells Buddy to follow his heart when writing (“Seymour” 151).
- December – Buddy registers for the draft (“Seymour” 160).
1941:
- Seymour is drafted into the army and stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey (“Carpenters” 9, 26).
- Seymour slashes his wrists but survives the injury (“Carpenters” 70).
- Winter - Seymour begins dating Muriel Fedder (“Carpenters” 9, 72-73).
1942:
- February – Buddy is drafted into the army and stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia (“Carpenters” 5).
- Les and Bessie Glass are in California, where Les begins working for the motion picture industry. With them are Franny and Zooey (“Carpenters” 6).
- Boo Boo ( Beatrice) Glass is an ensign in the navy and stationed at the Brooklyn Naval Base. Buddy becomes ill with pleurisy (“Carpenters” 6).
- Spring – Seymour is transferred to an Air Corps base in California (“Carpenters” 7).
- May 22 or 23 –Boo Boo sends Buddy a letter asking him to represent the family at Seymour’s wedding to Muriel Fedder (“Carpenters” 3).
- June 4 - Seymour and Muriel elope.
1944:
- Seymour is sent overseas to fight the Second World War in Europe (“Seymour” 113).
1945-1948:
- After the war, Seymour is confined to a military psychiatric hospital (“Seymour” 114).
1945:
- Late autumn – Walt Glass is killed in Japan at age 22 (“Uncle Wiggily” 33).
1946:
- Buddy moves to a remote farmhouse in New York State (“Seymour” 138).
1948:
- Seymour returns home to his wife from Europe (“Seymour” 113, 134).
- March 19 – Seymour commits suicide in a Florida hotel room (“Bananafish” 18).
- Buddy writes“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (“Seymour” 112).
1951:
- Buddy publishes The Catcher in the Rye (“Seymour” 112).
1953:
- January – Buddy publishes the story “ Teddy” (“Seymour” 176).
1955:
- November – Franny Glass collapses in a restaurant and comes home to New York to recover from a spiritual crisis. Buddy begins to pen the story “Zooey” (“Zooey” 50).
1959:
- Buddy writes “ Seymour-An Introduction” (“Seymour” 106).
1965:
- May 28 - Buddy relays the entire contents of a letter written by his brother Seymour in 1924 and sent to him by his mother, Bessie (“Hapworth” 32).
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