The Salinger Affair
Julian Barnes, 27 October 1988
In Search of J.D. Salinger
by Ian Hamilton.
Heinemann, 222 pp., £12.95, September 1988,0 434 31331 9 Show More
by Ian Hamilton.
Heinemann, 222 pp., £12.95, September 1988,
“... Listen to Jeffrey Robinson, American biographer of figures such as Sheikh Yamani, describing how he goes to work: What I usually do is get two or three months’ research under my belt before I go to see the guy. He may say: ‘I don’t want this biography.’ I say to him: ‘That is not one of your options. This book is going to be written, I have a publisher and I’m getting near being able to write something ... ”