Jonathan Yardley
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Jonathan Yardley is an American author and former book critic at The Washington Post from 1981 to December 2014, and held the same post from 1978 to 1981 at the Washington Star. In 1981, he received t
Yardley in 2011
The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J. D. Salinger. It was partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 before being novelized in 1951.
Jonathan Yardley
…had gone out of print or were in some way seen as worth reading again. It was in this series that he gained attention for his highly critical look at The Catcher in the Rye in 2004. A collection of the Second Reading columns was published by Europa Editions in July 2011. On December 5, 2014, Yardley announced his retirement…
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