J.D. Salinger – 91, passes away…
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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.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son said in a statement from Salinger’s literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
“The Catcher in the Rye,” 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. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made “Catcher” a featured selection, advised that for “anyone who has ever brought up a son” the novel will be “a source of wonder and delight — and concern.”
Enraged by all the “phonies” who make “me so depressed I go crazy,” Holden soon became American literature’s most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel’s sales are astonishing — more than 60 million copies worldwide — and its impact incalculable. Decades after publication, the book remains a defining expression of that most American of dreams — to never grow up.
Literature Lovers Alert: J.D. Salinger sues over The Catcher in the Rye ‘Sequel’…
J.D. Salinger on Monday sued the writer and publisher of a book billed as a sequel to his classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” saying the work infringes on his copyright.Salinger is asking a judge to block publication of “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” written by an author identified as J.D. California.
According to online bookstore Amazon.com, the book will be published in September by Swedish publisher Nicotext.
“The sequel is not a parody and it does not comment upon or criticize the original. It is a rip-off pure and simple,” said the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.A representative from Nicotext could not immediately be reached for comment.
Salinger holds a copyright to the 1951 novel, considered one of the great works of American literature, and its main character, Holden Caulfield.
The lawsuit describes Salinger as “fiercely protective of his intellectual property” and says he “would not approve of defendants’ use of his intellectual property.”
From ‘Catching Salinger’:
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The Catcher in the Rye Part 1:
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