Would you read a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye that wasn't written by Salinger? It's an old journalism chestnut that won't die, even after he does -- "Book J.D. Salinger for that show!" ...

"Rebel in the Rye" explores J.D. Salinger's career and meditation practice. — -- J.D. Salinger’s controversial novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” is considered by many to be an American ...

Excerpts Here is the opening of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” narrated by Holden Caulfield, a tormented prep-school flunk-out who is headed for mental collapse. If you really ...

Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has spawned catchphrases, book-banning campaigns, unauthorized sequels, and untold millions of padded high school English class essays.

Between high school and college I read The Catcher in the Rye five times. This was unusual for me. I don’t typically read a book more than once. There are just too many good books that I haven ...

"Don't even mention them to me." The young hero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is often described as one of the great unreliable narrators in American fiction -- a ...

J.D. Salinger, a giant of 20th century American letters and author of "The Catcher in the Rye" who had shunned the public eye for decades, died Wednesday at his home in rural Cornish, N.H. He was 91.

An inscribed copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a rare commodity among antiquarian book collectors. But those hunting for a signed copy of the 1951 classic can rejoice ...

Artist Anne Zahalka credits Holden Caulfield, the fictional character in The Catcher in the Rye, for changing the way she approached her art. While working in New York in the early 1980s ...