Who was J.D. Salinger? While he’s mostly known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger published various short stories in magazines like The New Yorker and Story before the book hit the big ...

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of ...

There's nothing like a good legal dispute to force the world's most reclusive author to come out of the shadows.J.D. Salinger filed a lawsuit yesterday in New York District Court over an author's ...

There has been a bit of buzz around the internet about a few as-of-yet unpublished J.D. Salinger manuscripts. Rumor has it that the reclusive author had at least five to-be books finished before his ...

The potentially last chance to hear J.D. Salinger's voice on tape is set to go up in smoke, according to the woman who recorded him. Betty Eppes is in possession of the "only known recording" of ...

“The Catcher in the Rye” could have had “that Jewish-Irish business” on its jacket, the letters show. Acclaimed author J.D. Salinger asked his publisher to remove references to his Jewish heritage in ...

When it comes to frequently banned books, the 1951 classic novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger comes up frequently. However, the background of the story itself is something worth focusing on ...

Each morning, as dawn seeps through my office windows, I settle into my meditation spot — a broken but still serviceable knockoff Eames chair. There, I sit with my eyes closed, repeating a mantra that ...

In his greatest works, a clash between self-expression and self-effacement. “Don't ever tell anybody anything," J.D. Salinger wrote in the closing lines of “The Catcher in the Rye." “If you do, you ...

The woman in possession of the only known audio recording of late author J.D. Salinger says she plans to have it cremated alongside her when she dies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Then a reporter ...

J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye, died Wednesday at the New Hampshire home where he'd lived since the 1950s. He was 91. In addition to Catcher in the Rye, his most famous and best ...