"A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published in Mademoiselle in May 1947.
They both interact with a couple, Diane and Fielding Woodruff, who befriend them and offer advice.
Kinsella, who had never met Salinger, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his being a recluse) based on the author of The Catcher in the Rye, a book that had great meaning to him when he was a young man.
Salinger had also used the surname shared by writer and protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye (Holden Caulfield's roommate Richard Kinsella).
Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in Shoeless Joe and intimated he would sue should the character "J. D. Salinger" appear in any other medium, should Shoeless Joe be adapted.
The producers believed that it was not significant to jettison Salinger, as they figured only 15% of the potential audience would know who the author was.