J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

48 mins | Documentary, History | March 23, 1999

Famous recluse J. D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm. Banned in schools, and horrifically inspiring the killing of John Lennon, the book had repercussions no one could have foreseen and which seemed to drive the author further into hiding.

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk

48 mins | Documentary, History | March 23, 1999

J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk
Famous recluse J. D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm. Banned in schools, and horrifically inspiring the killing of John Lennon, the book had repercussions no one could have foreseen and which seemed to drive the author further into hiding.
Producers
Original title J.D. Salinger Doesn't Want to Talk
Directors Sarah Aspinall
Writers Sarah Aspinall

Cast

Jo Shinner

as Narrator

Greg Herriges

as Self

A. E. Hotchner

as Self

Joyce Maynard

as Self

J. D. Salinger

as Self (archive footage)