"Rebel in the Rye" explores J.D. Salinger's career and meditation practice. — -- J.D. Salinger’s controversial novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” is considered by many to be an American ...

Between high school and college I read The Catcher in the Rye five times ... about whom Holden has nothing bad to say is his younger sister, Phoebe. It’s only when he’s with her that he ...

"The Catcher in the Rye" should never be made into a movie ... there are good movies and bad movies and that his beloved kid sister Phoebe has a knack for identifying the good ones.

When she married Sol, she changed her first name to the more Jewish-sounding Miriam (Moses’ sister ... that prep school dropout in The Catcher in the Rye, is not exactly a Jewish boychik.

Artist Anne Zahalka credits Holden Caulfield, the fictional character in The Catcher in the Rye, for changing the ... Viennese Jewish mother and her older sister in 1950. Her Jewish grandmother ...

Old Oscars memory. Harvey Weinstein, then-Miramax chief, once wanted to make a film based on “The Catcher in the Rye.” Reclusive author J.D. Salinger wasn’t eager on selling film rights.