...century. They all did it: James Jones, Joseph Heller, JD Salinger, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon each published war stories...unhappy wife, the masterful NCO) imperfectly reimagined by Salinger. This is followed by two sullenly heavy sections of...

J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye has...on the Amazon bestseller list. Now Mr Salinger - a reclusive, litigious 90-year-old...named Mr C. - easily identifiable as Mr Salinger's protagonist Holden Caulfield - who escapes...

In J.D. Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey , Zooey reads a letter from his brother Buddy, who laments that no one has ever staged a production of...

In J.D. Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey, Zooey reads a letter from his brother Buddy, who laments that no one has ever staged a production of...

...contract, that's no excuse to be so cynical about it. Innumerable authors have themselves married several times, among them JD Salinger (3), Ernest Hemingway (4), Saul Bellow (5) and Norman Mailer (6). But this doesn't stop novelists creating problems...

...contract, that's no excuse to be so cynical about it.Innumerable authors have themselves married several times, among them JD Salinger (3), Ernest Hemingway (4), Saul Bellow (5) and Norman Mailer (6). But this doesn't stop novelists creating problems...

...like a job but, even if she were to stop publishing, she wouldn't stop writing. "Don't you think," she asks, "that when JD Salinger dies we will find piles of manuscripts in the barn?" Later, when she tastes the maple syrup ice-cream she has ordered...

...afterlife.Have you ever imitated another writer's style?Often, but they're mixed in together: Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, Philip Roth.What novel would you give your own child to introduce them to literature?The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

...imitated another writer's style?Often, but they're mixed in together: Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, Philip Roth.What novel would you give your own child to introduce them to literature?The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.Interview by Anna Metcalfe.

...through a baroque voting system handed down from previous years and said to be used by the Prix Goncourt. From Saki and JD Salinger at school, to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Flannery O'Connor and many more, I have enjoyed short stories through most of my...