Michael Mcdermott as Self - Photojournalist

A. E. Hotchner as Self - Writer

Jean Miller as Self - Salinger's Friend

Gore Vidal as Self - Writer

Tom Wolfe as Self - Writer

John Guare as Self - Playwright

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Self - Actor

Martin Sheen as Self - Actor

Harvey Jason as Self - Rare Bookseller

Paul Alexander as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Richard Stayton as Self - Book Editor

Robert Towne as Self - Screenwriter

A. Scott Berg as Self - Writer

Michael Clarkson as Self - Salinger's Fan

E. L. Doctorow as Self - Writer

David Shields as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Don Congdon as Self - Book Editor

Leila Hadley Luce as Self - Salinger's Friend

Ben Yagoda as Self - New Yorker Biographer

John Unrue as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Jay Neugeboren as Self - Writer

Thomas Kunkel as Self - New Yorker Biographer

Jane Scovell as Self - O. O'Neill's Biographer

Mark Howland as Self - Teacher

David Roderick as Self - D-Day Veteran

Alex Kershaw as Self - War Historian

John Fitzgerald as Self - Son of P. Fitzgerald, CIC

Sean Hemingway as Self - E. Hemingway's Grandson

Ethel Nelson as Self - Salinger's Friend

Jonathan Schwartz as Self - Writer

David Victor Harris as Self - L. Fosburgh's Widower

Jack Wenke as Self - Writer

Deborah Dash Moore as Self - War Historian

Elizabeth Frank as Self - Writer

Robert Abzug as Self - Holocaust Historian

Eberhard Alsen as Self - Writer

Michael Silverblatt as Self - Literary Critic

John Romano as Self - Screenwriter

David Huddle as Self - Writer

Phoebe Hoban as Self - Writer

Himan Brown as Self - TV Producer

John Leggett as Self - Writer

Edward Norton as Self - Actor

Marc Weingarten as Self - Writer

Geraldine McGowan as Self - Writer

John Cusack as Self - Actor

Judd Apatow as Self - Filmmaker

Ved Mehta as Self - Writer

Glenn Gordon Caron as Self - Writer

Tony Bill as Self - Filmmaker

Ted Russell as Self - Photographer

Chris Kubica as Self - Writer

Joyce Maynard as Self - Writer

Stephen Spiro as Self - NYPD Officer

Fred Fogo as Self - Writer

Jay Martin as Self - Pyschologist

J. Reid Meloy as Self - Forensic Psychologist

Jon Wiener as Self - Historian

Stephen J. Whitfield as Self - Historian

Betty Eppes as Self - Journalist

Stephen Adly Guirgis as Self - Playwright

Lawrence Grobel as Self - Writer

Chad Reingold as Self - Writer

Robert Boyton as Self - Journalist

Todd Lewis Brandenburg as J. D. Salinger

Alexa Ryan as Drama Reconstruction Player

Julie Warnock as Drama Reconstruction Player

Anthony Savini as Bob Giroux

Alex Bergman as The Imaginary Friend

Zoe Vela Page as Drama Reconstruction Player

Werner Kleeman as Self - Salinger's Friend (archive footage)

Oona O'Neill as Self (archive footage)

J. D. Salinger as Self - Writer (archive footage)

Ernest Hemingway as Self - Writer (archive footage)

William Maxwell as Self - New Yorker Editor (archive footage)

Samuel Goldwyn as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Margaret Salinger as Self - Salinger's Daughter (archive footage)

Mark David Chapman as Self (archive footage)

John Lennon as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Marcia Clark as Self - Former Deputy DA (archive footage)