The Long Debut of Lois Taggett

An uncollected story written by J. D. Salinger, "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" is the tale of a debutante and her long process of coming out. Throughout this story, Lois struggles to deal with the harshness of reality and maintain her own humanity. Before she can let go of pretense, she must first deal with a psychotic husband, a loveless second marriage, and her child's crib death. It was first published in the September 1942 edition of Story.[1]

References

Starosciak, Kenneth (1971). J. D. Salinger: A Thirty Year Bibliography, 1938-1968. St Paul: Croixside Press. ISBN 9780870180729.

J. D. Salinger
Novel	The Catcher in the Rye
Short story collections	Nine Stories Franny and Zooey Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction Three Early Stories
Short stories	"Blue Melody" "Both Parties Concerned" "A Boy in France" "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" "Down at the Dinghy" "Elaine" "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" "A Girl I Knew" "Go See Eddie" "The Hang of It" "Hapworth 16, 1924" "The Heart of a Broken Story" "I'm Crazy" "The Inverted Forest" "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" "Last Day of the Last Furlough" "The Laughing Man" "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" "Once a Week Won't Kill You" "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" "The Stranger" "Teddy" "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" "The Varioni Brothers" "The Young Folks" "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans"
Related	Holden Caulfield My Foolish Heart (1949) Pari (1995) Salinger (2013) (companion biography) Rebel in the Rye (2017)
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