"Many of us who read 'The Catcher in the Rye' have, at some point in our lives, wished we could know the author better. Now, we finally can,” says S&S publisher Jonathan Karp, about the book which ...

(AP) The authors of a new J.D. Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: What “The Catcher in the Rye” novelist was working on during the last half ...

J.D. Salinger died a year ago this Thursday, and in time for that anniversary, there's a newly published biography called, simply, J.D. Salinger: A Life. Fresh Air's Book critic Maureen Corrigan says ...

It wouldn’t be true to say that Holden Caulfield, the disaffected loner in The Catcher in the Rye, was always a stand-in for his creator, the disaffected loner J.D. Salinger. But there are times when ...

SALINGER, by David Shields and Shane Salerno. Simon & Schuster, 698 pp., $37.50. If you're a J.D. Salinger fan, you've probably already heard the (alleged) news that he left five books ready to be ...

Authors of a new JD Salinger biography say previously unseen works by the reclusive writer will be published in the next few years. Starting between 2015 and 2020, a series of posthumous Salinger ...

Dead little more than a year, J.D. Salinger still fascinates. With John Updike and John Cheever, he defined 20th-century short fiction: the twist of fate, the detailed attention to character, the ...

In the autumn of 2013, David Shields and Shane Salerno produced an eagerly awaited biography of J.D. Salinger. Besides confirming the long-held assumption that the author of The Catcher in the Rye, ...

(AP) The authors of a new J.D. Salinger biography claim they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: What “The Catcher in the Rye” novelist was working on during the last half century of ...

J.D Salinger died a year ago this Thursday, and in time for that anniversary, there's a newly published biography called, simply, J.D. Salinger: ... J.D. Salinger died a year ago this Thursday, and in ...