'Catcher in the Rye' author Salinger dies
The Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger has died at the age of 91, his son said yesterday.
Salinger, below, died of natural causes at his home. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, New Hampshire, in the United States.
Catcher in the Rye with its teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951 during the time of anxious, Cold War conformity. Teenagers all over the world identified with the novel’s themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy.