author, 'My Salinger Year'
Author of My Salinger Year
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Joanna Rakoff
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FROM Joanna Rakoff
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'My Salinger Year' When she was 23, Joanna Rakoff left grad school in London and moved to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a poet. Despite being what she calls, “the only bookish, angry, misfit American teenager to have graduated from high school without reading Catcher in the Rye ,” Rakoff gets a job at the literary agency that handles JD Salinger. And one of her duties is answering the secretive author’s fan mail.
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