"The agents of reticence," wrote the English poet Ian Hamilton in "Keepers of the Flame," "have no truck with the agents of disclosure."
Thwarted by J.D. Salinger as he tried to write the story of the novelist's life, Hamilton was out for revenge when he penned this work on literary estate management and mismanagement. The title "Keepers of the Flame" was a reference to those in Victorian times who attempted to preserve pure images of the departed.
