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Was J.D. Salinger a sexual predator?

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Not that I'm aware -- is someone saying he was? He had an odd if perfectly legal relationship with 18-year-old Joyce Maynard when he was 53. The two wound up living together for the better part of a year before they parted. read more

Much as I dislike and abhor him as a person, I don't think that the term"sexual predator" can be applied to people who do sex only with consented adults. To the best of my knowlege, Salinger never raped anyone, nor had sex with a minor under the age of consent. read more

Genius, hermit and sexual predator: Novelist J.D.Salinger was also the ultimate anti-celebrity The only recent photograph of him (taken many years ago) is of him wearing a furious face as he fends off an intruding cameraman. read more

Salinger was 30. (MORE: A Fresh Look at J.D. Salinger’s Life) In the story, an American soldier in England befriends a precocious girl whom he first glances while she is practicing in a church choir. “Listening, I scanned all the children’s faces but watched one in particular, that of the child nearest me, on the end seat in the front row. read more

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