JD Salinger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8486169.stm

catcher is an overrated book, but there's no doubt he was an icon. although he had a good run at 101.

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American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher in the Rye, has died aged 91.

The reclusive writer died of natural causes at his home in the state of New Hampshire, his son said.

The Catcher In The Rye, first published in 1951, is a tale of teenage angst. It has become one of the most influential American novels of the modern era.

Soon after its publication, Salinger shunned the fame it brought and became a recluse for the rest of his life.

The son of a Jewish businessman and Scots-Irish mother, Jerome David Salinger was born in New York and grew up in Manhattan.

He enjoyed early success in the 1940s with the publication of numerous short stories in magazines, among them the New Yorker.

But he is best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which quickly became a bible of teenage dissent in America and a staple of high school and freshman college English courses.

 

Almost immediately after Catcher was published, Salinger became disillusioned with the publishing industry.

In 1953, he bought a house at Cornish, New Hampshire, and retreated into seclusion, giving a rare and final interview in 1980.

Last year, Salinger took legal action to block the publication of a book by a Swedish author - 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - that was billed as a follow-up to his classic novel.

He has taken legal action to protect his copyright on previous occasions, but has never appeared in court. He has also refused filming rights for his story.

His three subsequent books - including Franny and Zooey - were all best-sellers.

But no new Salinger fiction appeared after 1965 and he has done everything possible to try to thwart the efforts of biographers.

 

Although many years have passed since the publication of any work by Salinger, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that he has a large safe containing at least 15 completed manuscripts.

Throughout his life, Salinger befriended women younger than himself.

 

He married Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35 in 1954. They had two children and then divorced in 1967.

For nearly 30 years before his death, he lived with a woman named Colleen O'Neill, leading an ascetic life.

the bad plus > jd salinger

Still haven't read Catcher in the Rye

its hard to be sad when he wasn't working on a new book anyway

rip dude

  On 1/29/2010 at 1:32 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

its hard to be sad when he wasn't working on a new book anyway

true - his death hasn't affected me in the way that hunter s or john peel's did (john peel's death really fucked me up).

i guess this is because the last time any of salinger's stuff had any real influence on me was maybe thirteen years ago.

i think he sorta suffered from the 'moby syndrome': catcher was so massively iconic and influential that it reached a saturation point where everybody had read it.

and because hipsters operate on a relative scale, and always have, once everybody has read it, it becomes culturally worthless to them.

when you take the book as it is without all the cultural baggage, it's a fairly well-written story about an angsty teenager, but no more than that.

he's lived a few hours from me for the past 50 years and i didn't even know it

dude I was going to put him in my dead pool this year. damn

Again? Wow

  On 1/29/2010 at 2:07 AM, Gary C said:

Again? Wow

yeah, no kidding

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/52935-jd-salinger-dead-at-91/

p.s. he was 91, not 101

i fail both maths and jazz

  On 1/29/2010 at 12:08 AM, kaini said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8486169.stm

 

catcher is an overrated book, but there's no doubt he was an icon. although he had a good run at 101.

 

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American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher in the Rye, has died aged 91.

The reclusive writer died of natural causes at his home in the state of New Hampshire, his son said.

The Catcher In The Rye, first published in 1951, is a tale of teenage angst. It has become one of the most influential American novels of the modern era.

Soon after its publication, Salinger shunned the fame it brought and became a recluse for the rest of his life.

The son of a Jewish businessman and Scots-Irish mother, Jerome David Salinger was born in New York and grew up in Manhattan.

He enjoyed early success in the 1940s with the publication of numerous short stories in magazines, among them the New Yorker.

But he is best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which quickly became a bible of teenage dissent in America and a staple of high school and freshman college English courses.

 

Almost immediately after Catcher was published, Salinger became disillusioned with the publishing industry.

In 1953, he bought a house at Cornish, New Hampshire, and retreated into seclusion, giving a rare and final interview in 1980.

Last year, Salinger took legal action to block the publication of a book by a Swedish author - 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - that was billed as a follow-up to his classic novel.

He has taken legal action to protect his copyright on previous occasions, but has never appeared in court. He has also refused filming rights for his story.

His three subsequent books - including Franny and Zooey - were all best-sellers.

But no new Salinger fiction appeared after 1965 and he has done everything possible to try to thwart the efforts of biographers.

 

Although many years have passed since the publication of any work by Salinger, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that he has a large safe containing at least 15 completed manuscripts.

Throughout his life, Salinger befriended women younger than himself.

 

He married Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35 in 1954. They had two children and then divorced in 1967.

For nearly 30 years before his death, he lived with a woman named Colleen O'Neill, leading an ascetic life.

Very sad indeed. I just learned of his passing.

I read catcher in the rye in 6th grade. didn't like it so much, and even though i didn't have enough world experience to understand holden's outlook, I knew the book was overrated. needless to say RIP

I liked the book! Thought it was very funny back when I read it. For you guys that read it in school, that's probably why you didn't like it.

he treated his lover like shit and made her get breast implants. Lol.

catcher in the rye gave me blue balls, i had absolutely no idea what it was or anything, the whole way through i was expecting something grim to happen, i felt like the whole feel of the story had this dormant aspect of malevolence, and then actually it was just kinda like , ok cool thats the end. i dont even remember if anything happened, i dont think it did.

Its a good book, I wouldn't really want to read it again though. It was a little bit annoying. I kind of think that The World According To Garp did a lot of the same things but better, although its not really the same book at all. Dunno. Opinions lol.