The death of J D Salinger at the end of January led to a sudden outpouring of remembrance and re-evaluation. I myself recalled, wistfully, seeing the great man himself on many occasions in New ...

J.D. Salinger's seminal work still sells 200,000 copies a year, but he withdrew from public life in the 1960s.

American author JD Salinger published prolifically, by his standards, about two families in his oeuvre – the Caulfields and the Glasses. He set out to unleash something quite idiosyncratic ...

Sanjay Sipahimalani Updated : Mar 10, 2012, 10:18 PM IST JD Salinger: A Life Raised High Author: Kenneth Slawenski Publisher: Tranquebar Pages: 398 Price: Rs395 In The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger ...

JD Salinger thought of including his generation’s idea of a trigger alert as he worked on ‘The Catcher in the Rye.’ In an early draft of the 1951 novel, narrator Holden Caulfield warns that the story ...

NEW YORK, Jan 29: J.D. Salinger ... and the young Salinger was drafted in 1942. He took part in the D-Day stormings of the Normandy beaches, and his wartime experiences are said to have marked him for ...