J.D. Salinger’s private letters reveal why he feared his Jewish-Irish roots would overshadow 'The Catcher in the Rye.', Books ...
There are two kinds of reactions I’ve gotten when I tell people I’m reading “The Catcher in the Rye.” The first is a total non-reaction, where they have no idea what I’m talking about — evidently ...
After scanning a single page of J. D. Salinger’s 1951 The Catcher in the Rye, the most avidly admired novel on modern American campuses, Tulsa’s School Superintendent Charles C. Mason had one comment: ...