Thursday, January 28, 2010

Literary Obituary - J.D. Salinger Dead at 91 - Author of "Catcher in the Rye"

Here is a significant obituary of a literary great J.D. Salinger who passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Thanks to reader Infotainme for the suggestion.


Here is a brief excerpt from a New York Times article:

J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91.

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Mr. Salinger’s literary reputation rests on a slender but enormously influential body of published work: the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” the collection “Nine Stories” and two compilations, each with two long stories about the fictional Glass family: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”

To read the rest of the story from the renound newspaper, The New York Times, click on the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?hp
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