Salinger became a recluse shortly after recieving much fame and attention from his novel [The Catcher in the Rye]?, which is still being read in High Schools today and considered a classic coming of age story. He moved from New York to [Cornish, N.H.]? where he continues to write volumes.
Even though Salinger has tried to escape public exposure and attention as much as possible ("A writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him." ~Salinger), he continually struggles with the unwanted attention he gets as a cult figure. On learning of an author's intention to publish J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life, a biography including letters Salinger had written to other authors and friends, Salinger filed suit to stop the book's publication. The book was eventually published with the letters' contents paraphrased; the court's decision was that although a person may own a letter physically; the language within it belongs to the author.
One unintended result of the lawsuit, which Salinger had intended to protect his privacy, was that many details of Salinger's private life, including that he had written two novels and many stories but left them unpublished, became public in the form of court transcripts.
34 years after his last book, Salinger published his first novel Hapworth 16, 1924, which was first published in the New Yorker as a short story in 1965. The novel will be published by a small press called Orchises Press.
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