“Catcher In The Rye” Author J.D. Salinger Dead At 91

1:10 pm EST January 28th, 2010 | News | 9 Comments

AP

‘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.

Never read it, myself.

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9 Responses to ““Catcher In The Rye” Author J.D. Salinger Dead At 91”

  1. KXB says:
    January 28, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    I was impressed not just with his writing, but by the fact that he preserved his privacy for so long. What we know about his private life was unsettling enough. If Salinger knew “Catcher in the Rye” would be the subject of every other college application essay, he may have waited to publish it.

  2. jr says:
    January 28, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    Zinn and Salinger in the same week. Damn. Catcher in the Rye is fun in audio book form

  3. leemoder says:
    January 28, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    You ain’t missing much. Had to read “Catcher” back in high school and my reaction was “whoop-dee-doo”. All Salinger did was create the world’s first Emo-boy. Thanks, pal.

  4. kth says:
    January 28, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Yeah, as teen lit, Catcher In The Rye is one of the best. But even as New Yorker-type literature, it can’t stand next to Cheever, Carver, Beattie, and that genre itself can’t stand next to Bellow, Pynchon, Roth, DeLillo.

    Been decades since I read it, but my memory of the “Franny and Zooey” volume of stories is that it wasn’t so fraught with CITR’s flaws (mainly the over-identification with the main character).

  5. Porlock Junior says:
    January 29, 2010 at 1:08 am

    What? Another person who has never read it? Waaah, I’m not unique. But it wasn’t assigned in school back in my day, so people read it for enjoyment. Or, to be sure, not.

  6. Amused Observer says:
    January 29, 2010 at 1:16 am

    “Zinn and Salinger in the same week. ”

    Two novelists in one week. Salinger was better aquainted with the human condition, Zinn with fiction.

  7. Blamo says:
    January 29, 2010 at 1:32 am

    leemoder-EXACTLY. A whiny brat writing about a whiny self absorbed rich brat and then running and hiding when he could have inspired. Weak.

  8. anotherbozo says:
    January 29, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    I think Howard Zinn’s loss is a lot greater than Salinger’s. CITR: prep school angst. The word “phony” was ruined forever.

  9. richard benke says:
    January 29, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    please say who is the reader for the audiobook of “the catcher in the rye?” thanks.
    –richard benke