J.D. Salinger (1919–2010) remains one of the most fascinating paradoxes in American letters. Lauded as the author of The Catcher in the Rye, a book that gave adolescent alienation its most enduring voice, he also became a cultural riddle: a man who spent the last half of his life in near silence, publishing nothing, andContinue reading “The Enigma of J.D. Salinger: Genius, Recluse, and the Making of an American Myth”
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