Colleen salinger biography review

Aghast at the fame thrust upon him by The Catcher in the Rye — and craving the solitude he needed in order to write — J.D. Salinger spent the last several decades of his life holed up in his rural New Hampshire hideaway, notoriously thwarting reporters and fans. (He died in 2010 at age 91.) For this oral history, Salinger, which will be simultaneously released as a documentary film, the authors spent nine years tracking down Salinger’s family, lovers, friends, fellow soldiers, and colleagues.

Though neither the author’s wife Colleen nor his son, Matthew, seem to have cooperated, many others did, including people who had long declined to discuss Salinger with the media. And their recollections can be compelling: Jean Miller, who was befriended by Salinger when she was 14 and he was 30, details their creepy pseudosexual relationship; the author A.E.

Hotchner, a friend until Salinger dropped him in the 1940s over a minor work snafu, brings postwar literary New Yor J. D. Salinger’s Women - Nymag - New York Magazine CEWE