One of his famous quotes from Franny and Zooey critiques the obsession with ego. This sentiment remains relevant in today's ...

Beneath all the alienation, "The Catcher in the Rye," which turns 75 this year, has a surprisingly hopeful—and ...

The big secrets revealed in Shane Salerno's new J.D. Salinger documentary and accompanying book, both appropriately titled Salinger, are here and, frankly, they are huge. The big reveal that Harvey ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — As he worked on early drafts ...

“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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After nearly a decade of stalking the man and myth of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive American author director Shane Salerno kept returning to the writer's time amid the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — As he worked on early drafts of “The Catcher in the Rye,” a novel which proved both scandalous and life-changing, J.D. Salinger considered adding his generation’s idea of a trigger alert.