"Many of us who read 'The Catcher in the Rye' have, at some point in our lives, wished we could know the author better. Now, we finally can,” says S&S publisher Jonathan Karp, about the book which ...

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 ...

A book by David Shields and Shane Salerno says previously unpublished material will be released; a documentary distributed by the Weinstein Co. is set to debut Sept. 6. By The Associated Press JD ...

A new J.D. Salinger film and biography are being billed as an unprecedented look into the mysterious life of the author of "The Catcher In the Rye." Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that it had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a new documentary and biography about the creator of The Catcher in the Rye on the way, we could be learning a lot more about the intensely private author. Here's what we still don't know, and ...

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 half ...