RIP: J.D. Salinger dies at 91
Jan
28
2010
American literary great J.D. Salinger died today, he was 91. According to Harold Ober, Salinger’s representative, the writer died of natural causes. Here’s a brief excerpt from the New York Times J.D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91:
He bragged in college about his literary talent and ambitions, and wrote swaggering letters to Whit Burnett, the editor of Story magazine. But success, once it arrived, paled quickly for him. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his photograph on the dust jacket of “The Catcher in the Rye” and demanded that it be removed from subsequent editions. He ordered his agent to burn any fan mail.
My thoughts are with his family and friends.
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Sad to see this great but slightly odd man pass from this world.
His book The catcher in the Rye is my fav book ever.
Did you know that he sold 60 million copies in 50 years, so i guess that he could afford to be odd. Another fact about J.D. Salinger is that The Catcher in the Rye is the only full lenth novel he ever published. The rest of his books are colections of short stories.
By the way you have a cracking site
Donny