In search of jd salinger a biography

          An account of the literary life of one of twentieth-century America's most widely read and most reclusive writers, J.D. Salinger..

          MLA Citation:

          Hamilton, Ian. In Search of J.D. Salinger: A Biography.

          This unauthorized biography of the notorious recluse, JD Salinger, fails as history but is fascinating in its own way.

        1. A sophisticated exploration of Salinger's life and writing and a sustained debate about the nature of literary biography.
        2. An account of the literary life of one of twentieth-century America's most widely read and most reclusive writers, J.D. Salinger.
        3. When Ian Hamilton set out in to write a biography of Salinger, he knew that there would be difficulties.
        4. Ian Hamilton was born in , in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Darlington Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford.

          5. New York: Random House, 1988. Print.

          Dust Jacket Copy:

          “In 1983 biographer Ian Hamilton began work on what he know would prove a formidable task:  an account of the literary life of one of twentieth-century America’s most widely read and most reclusive writers, J.D.

          Salinger. What Hamilton didn’t know was that he would end up with not one story to tell but two, that his own life would ultimately become intimately entangled with that of his notoriously difficult subject.

          Through The Catcher in the Rye and his timelessly provocative stories, Salinger’s magic has touched, and continues to touch, the lives of millions of readers.

          Yet the creator of Holden Caulfield and of the enigmatic Franny and Zooey is himself as much a mystery as even his most elusive characters. Now, in a brilliant feat of literary detection, the distinguished biographer Ian Hamilton penetrates the mystery, prov