J.D. Salinger Dies

Reclusive 'Catcher in the Rye' author was 91.By Kyle Anderson J.D. Salinger in 1951 Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images The literary world lost a giant Thursday (January 28), as author J.D. Salinger — the reclusive genius who crafted one of the most iconic and important pieces of youth fiction in "The Catcher in the Rye" — died at age 91. The author's son announced that the writer had died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire. After spending his youth in New York and ...

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