Salinger

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Salinger (film)

Salinger is a 2013 documentary film about the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger that was directed and produced by Shane Salerno. The film tells the story of Salinger's life through interviews with friends, historians, and journalists. The film premiered at the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival and had a second premiere on the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival.

Salinger was one of the top-ten highest-grossing documentaries of 2013, with the highest per screen average of all the movies that were released on its opening weekend. Two million viewers watched its broadcast on American Masters on PBS.

Production history

According to Salerno, the project initially started as a feature film, with Daniel Day-Lewis as his choice to play Salinger.

Buddy Squires, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated cinematographer, was hired to shoot the film.

On January 29, 2010, the website Deadline.com first reported on the documentary, which had been kept secret for five years. Michael Fleming, the first journalist to view the film, called it "arrestingly powerful and exhaustively researched". Additionally, Fleming announced that Salerno had co-written a 700-page biography on Salinger with New York Times bestselling author David Shields. On February 4, 2010, Entertainment Weekly detailed the elaborate security surrounding the film.

Salinger (book)

Salinger is a New York Times best-selling biography by David Shields and Shane Salerno published by Simon & Schuster in September 2013. The book is an oral biographical portrait of reclusive American author J. D. Salinger. It explores Salinger’s life, with emphasis on his military service in World War II, his post-traumatic stress disorder, his subsequent writing career, his retreat from fame, his religious beliefs and his relationships with teenage girls.

Salinger debuted at #6 on the New York Times bestsellers list and stayed on the list for three weeks. It was #1 on the Los Angeles Times bestsellers list. Additionally, Salinger was named to the bestsellers lists for NPR, Independent Booksellers, and Barnes & Noble. It was named the Amazon Best Book of the Month in September 2013, received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, and was chosen as a Book of the Month Club Selection and the History Book Club Selection for September 2013.

The accompanying documentary Salinger (film) was featured as the 200th episode of American Masters on PBS.