
When JD Salinger passed away in 2010 at the age of 91, it became clear that he hadn't lost his ability to split the world into two. Either you get the Glass family, or you don't. The precocious siblings were refractions of the author's own identity, something that becomes more than evident as you read Kenneth Slawenski's excellent biography. Even though I read 'The Catcher in the Rye' fairly late...

09:50 PM, Mar 29, 2012

London: Previously unseen letters from 'The Catcher in the Rye' author JD Salinger show the kind of "warmth" and "affection" not often associated with someone who is seen as an eccentric recluse, a university said on Thursday. Salinger wrote the letters to Donald Hartog from London, between October 1986 and January 2002, and Hartog's daughter Frances and his other children have donated them to Britain's University of East Anglia (UEA)...

05:02 PM, Jan 27, 2011

Salinger wrote the post-war literary classic
The Catcher in the Rye. ...

09:31 AM, Jan 29, 2010

Salinger wrote the post-war literary classic
The Catcher in the Rye. ...

09:31 AM, Jan 29, 2010