J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, died Wednesday, Jan. 27. He was 91.Salinger, who lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in a small, remote house in Cornish, N.H., died of natural causes.
"Catcher," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. Salinger was writing for adults, but teenagers from all over identified with the novel's themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy, not to mention the luck of having the last word. (San Diego Historical Society�/�Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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