J.D. Salinger may have hated visitors, but he sure loved lawyers. The famously reclusive author fended off all attempts by others to adapt his writings, particularly his masterwork, Catcher in the Rye ...

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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 ...

Nov 28 (Reuters) - Three unpublished stories from reclusive U.S. author J.D. Salinger have been leaked online, with the source apparently an unauthorized book that sold on eBay, Internet news source ...

In April 2018 a ROADSHOW guest named Erika brought a love letter, of sorts, to the taping event at Ca' d'Zan in Sarasota, Florida. Erika explained that J.D. Salinger, the famously eccentric novelist, ...

Paul Alexander has published eight books, among them Rough Magic, a biography of Sylvia Plath, and Salinger, a biography of J.D. Salinger that was the basis of a documentary that appeared on American ...