J. D. Salinger dead at 91
“Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire.
The author’s son, in a statement from the author’s literary representative, says Salinger died of natural causes at his home. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
“The Catcher in the Rye” with its immortal teenage protagonist—the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield—came out in 1951 during the time of anxious, Cold War conformity.
“The Catcher in the Rye” gets a lot of bad publicity because of it being the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States and also it’s association to Mark David Chapman’s shooting of John Lennon , John Hinckley, Jr.’s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, Robert John Bardo’s shooting of Rebecca Schaeffer and other murders, but it still remains to be one of my favorite novels of all time. I’ve read the novel several times and I actually keep a copy on my nightstand that has pages dog-eared so that I can just read quick bits of my favorite parts. Looks like it’s time to dust it off and give it another read.
R.I.P. JD Salinger
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January 28th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
The book was definitive reading for a generation and more. I loved it.
When my younger brother became a teenager i purchased him: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye for christmas one year. He was like WTF but later admitted his admiration for them.
He was a special writer who spoke to me as a younger man.
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January 28th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
This explains a lot about both of you
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January 29th, 2010 at 8:19 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_salinger
Very interesting story coming out today about a “Safe” that no one is talking about found at the Salinger estate. As many fans know he was quite the recluse and pretty much stayed out of the public eye for most of his life. Only published one book (i think if he did more it was very few)
Most think that the safe are his lives other works that he never wanted to publish and deal with.
It will be interesting to see if they see the light of day.
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January 29th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Hey Admin, running a website about zombies explains a lot too. Also, I would be very interested in finding out what’s in that safe… Probably better than what they found in King Tut’s tomb (that shit was a bust for sure)
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