Simon & Schuster announced it will publish THE PRIVATE WAR OF JD SALINGER, a new “oral biography” co-written by film producer Shane Salerno and David Shields, in September. The project began life as a documentary more than eight years ago (and which Deadline first wrote about in 2010), and the resulting film, which includes interviews with more than 150 subjects, will air in January 2014 on PBS’s American Masters program and appear in limited theatrical release in September. In a press release S&S publisher Jonathan Karp said: “We are honored to be the publisher of what we believe will be […]
