Stephen Metcalf - I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been writte

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

- Stephen Metcalf

topic: Pain, Men, Names, Salinger, Holden Caulfield, Holden