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Salinger, by David Shields - review

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

Salinger David Shields and Shane Salerno

Simon & Schuster, pp.698, £25

This biography has somewhat more news value than most literary biographies. Its subject worked hard to ensure that. After 1965, J.D. Salinger, having published one novel, a volume of short stories and two pairs of novellas, withdrew permanently from public life. His last publication, a long story entitled ‘Hapworth 16, 1924’, was never printed in hard covers.

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