Confronting another in an apparently unending series of collected essays about J. D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a British reviewer once asked with some asperity why nearly every American critic who wrote about the novel seemed compelled t...

Best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J. D. Salinger (born 1919) is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American fiction to emerge after World War II. Salinger's re...

The entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books—one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in the eleven and a half years between January 1948 and June 1959; and a...

Byline: BERNICE GROHSKOPF J.D. Salinger's Hapworth 16, 1924, is a letter written by Seymour Glass to his family, from Camp Hapworth, Maine. He is 7, and his brother Buddy, 5. To introduce the letter, Buddy, age 46 - the same age as...

NOW THAT THE VERDICT in the O.J. Simpson civil trial has been announced, Morrow has accelerated publishing plans for His Name Is Ron: Our Search for Justice, the Goldman family memoir that executive editor Claire Wachtel signed up more than a year ago....