Ferdinand Mount

Refusing to play the game

What sort of person would you expect to be bringing out a life of J.D. Salinger two months after his death, bearing in mind that Salinger was more obsessive about his privacy than any other writer in human history and fought the publication of the last biography all the way to the US Supreme Court?

issue 03 April 2010

  • J. D. Salinger: A Life Raised High

    Kenneth Slawenski

    Pomona Books, pp. 423

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