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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

J.D. Salinger wrote himself into American letters in 1951 with “The Catcher in the Rye,” an enduring best-seller about the young, rebellious Holden Caulfield that still graces high school English ...

Ian Hamilton's "J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life" is being offered at Swann Auction Galleries on Nov. 21. It is being sold by a private American collector and has a pre-sale estimate of $4,000 to $6,000.

NEW YORK — 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 ...