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Family Plans to Publish Unseen Works of JD Salinger

The 'Catcher in the Rye' author kept writing for decades, his son confirms

(Newser) - For the first time in more than 50 years, unseen works by literary giant JD Salinger—creator of the iconic Holden Caulfield—will be published, though it's not clear exactly when. Matt Salinger told the Guardian that his father, who died in 2010, never stopped writing, though his last...

Book Claims Secret Deformity Made Salinger a Recluse

Says the famed author only had one testicle

(Newser) - If you thought the recent revelation that five new JD Salinger books are due out was juicy, well, you haven't seen anything yet. That tidbit came compliments of Salinger the book and Salinger the documentary, which were written/directed by David Shields and Shane Salerno and are both due out...

Coming Soon? 5 Books From JD Salinger

Documentary says author ordered posthumous publication of some works

(Newser) - We haven't heard the last word on Holden Caulfield, if a new documentary on JD Salinger is to be believed. The New York Times today reports that at least five new books could roll out as soon as 2015, including one tome, The Last and Best of the Peter ...

How I Failed to Get Salinger's Final Book Into Print

All went well until Roger Lathbury talked to reporters

(Newser) - The publisher of a tiny independent press could hardly believe it when JD Salinger agreed to his request to publish Hapworth 16, 1924, Salinger's "great mystical not-quite-lost work." But as the publication date approached, Roger Lathbury made a fatal mistake. He recounts his misstep—and the joy of...

Eager Fans Await 'Secret Salinger Trove'

Author rumored to have kept stash of unpublished works

(Newser) - Fans who have long awaited Holden Caulfield's move from adolescence to retirement hope they'll soon be reading something new from JD Salinger. The author—whose last published book was in 1963—is widely believed to have kept a stack of finished, unpublished works in a safe in his New Hampshire...

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