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15 Revelations from New J.D. Salinger Biography

He liked very young women, married a Gestapo informer, wanted to play Holden Caulfield, and other essential revelations from new bio.

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On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster will publish Salinger, an oral history about the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and dozens of other stories and novellas.

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