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 ...

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 century ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - An unauthorized and never-published biography of J.D. Salinger is expected to bring up to $6,000 at auction. Ian Hamilton's "J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life" is being offered at Swann ...

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 ...