PHILIP GOLDBERG
Author - Spiritual Coach - Public Speaker

MY BOOKS

THIS IS NEXT YEAR
A novel about a family, baseball, and Brooklyn, set in 1955
GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY -- and -- THE 6 SECRETS OF A LASTING RELATIONSHIP
Two collaborations with eminent psychiatrist Mark Goulston
ALPHA MALE SYNDROME - and - CREATING MAGIC
Two excellent business books, ghostwritten by me
MAKING PEACE WITH GOD - and - MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR PAST
Two collaborations with Harold Bloomfield, M.D.
THE BEST THAT I CAN BE
The life of the great Olympic champion, Rafer Johnson
OTHER WORKS
The rest of my books

My Blog

A Tribute to Swami Salinger

February 17, 2010

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[This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post]

The obituaries and tributes to J.D. Salinger, the seminal novelist who died two weeks ago at 91, have tended to ignore one important feature of his life and work: for many readers, especially young seekers of truth in the sixties and seventies, he was a kind (more…)