Salinger

J.D. Salinger may have hated visitors, but he sure loved lawyers. The famously reclusive author fended off all attempts by others to adapt his writings, particularly his masterwork, Catcher in the Rye. He even said “no” to Steven Spielberg regarding a film version of his classic novel. But now that the elusive Salinger is gone, what will happen– Keep Reading

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Salinger’s solitude, their source of pride – Boston Globe
CORNISH, NH – The word recluse became almost an honorific when JD Salinger moved here more than a half-century ago, attached to his name …

Salinger’s Last Known Manhattan Home – New York Times
The high-rise at 300 East 57th Street is the last known Manhattan home of JD Salinger. Few, if any, people connected to the building today knew of its …

Remembering Salinger: AM Homes – New Yorker (blog)
It is in that vein that I tell you: JD Salinger was my father–apologies to his biological offspring and my own multiple parents. …

JD Salinger: It’s the words that matter – Boston Globe
Our celebrity culture is ill-equipped to comprehend a literary figure like JD Salinger, who died Wednesday at 91. A Martian reading the author's obituaries …

Memories of Salinger, From Blog to Blog – New York Times (blog)
The death of JD Salinger, whose life remained private in a way few celebrities could imagine possible for today (Tiger Woods en tÃªte), …

JD Salinger ’s death spawns tales of hidden books and one that got away – USA Today
The death of JD Salinger, whose first name in most accounts appears to be "reclusive," has set off a flood of remembrances as well as speculation about …

J. D. Salinger: The Brilliance and the Silence – New York Times
In this era of celebrity, when those both with and without talent desperately grasp for the limelight, perhaps the death of JD Salinger will remind us of …

Publisher Roger Lathbury recalls book deal with JD Salinger that went sour – Washington Post
Amazingly, Salinger wrote back promptly, saying, essentially, "I'll think about it." Until July 26, 1996, when Lathbury, just having completed teaching his …

Meeting JD Salinger — Courtesy Of A Rainstorm – NPR
Now 67, Jim Krawczyk was in his mid-20s when he made a journey to see JD Salinger. Now 67, Jim Krawczyk was in his mid-20s when he made a journey to see JD …

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J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010
Say this for J.D. Salinger: Early on, he told his friends he was going to write the great American novel; with “The Catcher in the Rye,” he sort of did. But then he retired to a hermit-like existence in a remote New Hampshire home, writing only intermittently until his….

Rest In Privacy, J.D. Salinger
He lived on the other side of the world from Brangelina and Octomom. In a culture where people dream of fame for the sake of fame alone, the reclusive novelist, who died this week at 91, was the anti-celebrity..

WATCH: Renowned Author J.D. Salinger Dies
The 91-year-old Author of “The Catcher in the Rye” has died..

Reclusive author J.D. Salinger dies at 91
BOSTON (Reuters) – Reclusive U.S. author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American post-war literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died of natural causes aged 91..

Meeting J.D. Salinger — Courtesy Of A Rainstorm
As a young man, Jim Krawczyk’s favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to take a road trip to meet his hero. But in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town where the reclusive author lived, nobody seemed to know Salinger..

JD Salinger: A guy you’d want to call up (but he wouldn’t take calls)
Not the beatnik you’d expect to write the novel that invented the 20th-century teenagerHolden Caulfield, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye, says that a good writer is someone who makes you feel you can call them up on the phone.JD Salinger’s work had that quality in spades, which made it all the more intriguing that he spent so many decades not taking calls from journalists, biographers and ” above all ” publishers.His silence and unwillingness even to be photographed made him a powerful mythical figure. Don DeLillo once wrote a whole novel inspired by a photo of Salinger fending off a photographer.Yet Salinger was not a man for avant-garde stunts. He made his name writing for the New Yorker in the legendary days when short story writers could command big bucks and big audiences.Nor was Salinger the kind of beatnik figure you’d expect to write the novel that invented the 20th century teenager ” at least not until he started taking an interest in Zen Buddhism and writing his last published stories. For all his marvellous grumbling, Caulfield was a privileged east coast prep schoolboy.Even so, Holden became a role model for several generations of disaffected teens. Ian Hamilton, Salinger’s first biographer, wrote that when he first read The Catcher he went around for months afterwards being Holden, and was annoyed to discover later that thousands had done the same.The fact that people felt that way was only partly to do with Holden’s appealing anti-phoney stance. It came down to Salinger’s ability to make sophisticated writing look like speech ” a harder thing to do than he made it seem.Salinger’s silence since 1965 has invited a lot of speculation.

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91
Mr. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, turned his back on success and adulation..

Legendary Author J.D. Salinger Dies at 91
Author of coming of age classic ‘Catcher in the Rye’ died at his N.H.home..

Not That You Really Care, But Salinger Will Be Missed
If you really want to hear about it, author Susan Jane Gilman recounts her first memory of being introduced to J.D. Salinger: in her bed with Spaghettio’s and ginger ale, soaking in a short story. But you probably have better things to do..

Remembering 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, has died. He was 91. An obituary can be found here. Jesse Kornbluth has written an appreciation. Salinger will be read as long as there are misunderstood adolescents — or students of fine writing, especially funny writing. Also, before Salinger came along, most everything we knew of prep school from books was the sanitized version available in Tom Brown’s School Days or The Lawrenceville Stories or, heaven help us, Owen Johnson’s Stover at Yale. Did Dink Stover even have a johnson– No, but Holden did, and after him you couldn’t write about Pencey Prep or its ilk without at least admitting to the possible existence of sex.

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"JD Salinger And Captain America: Where ‘Catcher In The Rye’ Meets Comics" and related posts
RIP J.D. Salinger (author, CATCHER IN THE RYE) and Zelda Rubinstein (PICKET FENCES, POLTERGEIST, actress). Y’all will be missed!
RT @tweetmeme Screenwriter Shane Salerno Has Already Locked a 2-Hour JD Salinger Documentary http://is.gd/7jPZC
J D Salinger #Author of Catcher in the Rye : I am sick & tired of not having the courage to be an Absolute Nobody! We will miss your genius
So any bets on how quickly a Hollywood studio will rape Salinger’s corpse and try to make Catcher into a movie against his lifelong wishes–
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s. ~J.D Salinger f*** yeah!
RT @PRwise: A bit of trivia from Ragan: JD Salinger once, briefly, worked in PR – http://ow.ly/11ZlU RT @jeterbugg @badpitch
Salinger on surnud. Elagu Salinger! http://www.postimees.ee/–id=218496
@g33f Thats thanks to the Late JD Salinger . Catcher in the rye, The clockwork orange etc r few of d books that gave us a lotta new words.
http://onion.com/aMxPaR via @TheOnion – Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger, the great poet of post-traumatic stress #books http://bit.ly/9PhqnW
Books – Forget the reclusive mystique — JD Salinger’s books speak for themselves – Kansas City Star http://ow.ly/16sxsB
I just realized that with the passing of JD salinger only 2 of my favorite authors are still alive, thats kinda weird
In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. ~J.D. Salinger
According to Lillian Ross’ memories on #J.D. Salinger, he kept writing throughout his life. Hopefully a book turns out! http://bit.ly/buUVzF

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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud.

Postscript: J. D. Salinger: Back Issues : The New Yorker
J. D. Salinger has died. From 1946 to 1965, Salinger published thirteen stories in The New Yorker including such classics as “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.” There will be much more to come online and in next week’s magazine, but for now, we are making twelve of his New Yorker stories available to all readers through our digital edition:“A…

Author J.D. Salinger dead at 91 – CNN.com
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‘Catcher in the Rye’ author J.D. Salinger dies – washingtonpost.com
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BBC News – Catcher in the Rye novelist JD Salinger dies at 91
RIP J D Salinger http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8486169.stm