Synopsis
Joanna Smith Rakoff looks again at JD Salinger's fan mail, to which she replied against the reclusive writer's wishes, and asks why he found it so difficult to deal with admirers.
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Other Archive resources
World Book Club | The Catcher in the Rye
World Book Club discusses JD Salinger's 1951 classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with authors David Gilbert and Joanna Rakoff.
Witness History | The Reclusive JD Salinger
It's 65 years since JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye was published. But as the book's fame grew, a reclusive Salinger eventually stopped publishing altogether.