'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

[WI_DEM]

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. 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."

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ah, what a loss...

Safe passage to him.

Reading "Catcher in the Rye" was a rite of passage for me.

And for many others, I suspect...

[myrna minx]

2. RIP n/t

[rug]

3. He made plans for this.

“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. What i want to know about is

what happens with his unpublished manuscripts?

According to some, he has been writing constantly for the past 40 years - just not published any of it.