As army sergeant J. D. Salinger hit the beach on D-day, drank with Hemingway in newly liberated Paris, and marched into concentration camps, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye was with him. In an adaptation from his Salinger biography, the author reveals how the war changed both Holden Caulfield and his creator.
Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War
Kenneth Slawenski | Vanity Fair | January 22, 2011 | 4,138 words
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