num_pages: 352
description: In researching A Biography, journalist and biographer Paul Alexander conducted over forty interviews with major literary figures including George Plimpton, Gay Talese, Ian Hamilton, Harold Bloom, Roger Angell, A. Scott Berg, Robert Giroux, Ved Mehta, Gordon Lish, and Tom Wolfe. Alexander's research also took him to newly available archives at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia universities, NYU, and the New York Public Library. Response from critics has been overwhelming.
language: English
title: Salinger: A Biography
titlecomplete: Salinger: A Biography
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 334
publisher: Renaissance Books