The world's most reclusive authors. JD Salinger, Harper Lee and Thomas Pynchon spent decades avoiding publicity.
JD SalingerJerome David Salinger vies with Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes for the title of world's most famous recluse.
The author of The Catcher in the Rye turned his back on the public in 1953, two years after the novel's release, and ceased offering his work for publication in 1965. Over his almost 50 years of silence rumours abounded about him and he was besieged in his home by journalists and fans.
