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J.D. Salinger Died

by: Ray Buckley

Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 13:30:01 PM EST

( - promoted by Dean Barker)

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies
By HILLEL ITALIE
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 28, 2010; 1:12 PM

NEW YORK -- 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.

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R.I.P., Holden. n/t (4.00 / 1)

by: GreyMike @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 13:13:50 PM CST

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I once lived not far from his land. (0.00 / 0)

Now and then, when roaming a wonderful neighbor's woods he so generously offered to me to roam, I would wander onto JDs.

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 13:37:14 PM CST

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Very cool. n/t (0.00 / 0)

by: Chris Crawford @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 19:44:34 PM CST

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by: Chris Crawford @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 19:44:34 PM CST

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I hope he found happiness in his isolation. (0.00 / 0)

Luckily for the rest of us, his legacy continues; it's said that in the 45 years since he last published anything, he has continued writing things that were to be published posthumously.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 14:05:20 PM CST

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Anyone Ever Canvass in Cornish? (4.00 / 1)

Did any Upper Valley campaign volunteers knock on Salinger's door or call him from a phone bank?

Just curious...

by: Tim Ashwell @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 15:33:37 PM CST

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no, but... (4.00 / 2)

I know his son a little, and I met him a time or two at the Midas Muffler shop in West Lebanon. Jerry Salinger was actually not really all that reclusive: as long as you didn't make a fuss over him, or refer to his past life as "J.D. Salinger", he was a rather humorous and friendly guy.

by: TimothyHorrigan @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 16:08:34 PM CST

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His son is an actor (0.00 / 0)

Played Captain America in a movie adaptation that didn't get much promotion.

by: elwood @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 16:58:50 PM CST

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I'm not sure how well-known (4.00 / 1)

his addy is - folks (me included) kept it to themselves.

Certainly the most famous, but not the only notable writer to have lived in Cornish.

There's the Art Colony folks, Winston Churchill (not to be confused with the British one) and the poet Percy MacKaye, in whose old cape I lived exactly one century to the season after he did.

Percy Mackaye:

Fluid the world flowed under us: the hills
Billow on billow of umbrageous green
Heaved us, aghast, to fresh horizons, seen
One rapturous instant, blind with flash of rills
And silver-rising storms and dewy stills
Of dripping boulders, till the dim ravine
Drowned us again in leafage, whose serene
Coverts grew loud with our tumultuous wills.
Then all of Nature's old amazement seemed
Sudden to ask us: "Is this also Man?
This plunging, volant, land-amphibian
What Plato mused and Paracelsus dreamed?
Reply!" And piercing us with ancient scan,
The shrill, primeval hawk gazed down - and screamed.

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 16:18:55 PM CST

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He's joined Walt and Seymour Glass (0.00 / 0)

I'm still waiting for a new story to appear in the New Yorker.

by: Putney Swope @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 15:35:22 PM CST

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One of the greatest authors ever (0.00 / 0)

Catcher is one of my favorite books of all time.

by: Chris Crawford @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 16:06:59 PM CST

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Two Degrees of Separation (4.00 / 3)

I knew Joyce Maynard (who once lived in Keene) with whom he had an affair and about which she infamously wrote.

Another one of my favorite authors died today - Louis Auchincloss. He was 92 years old. He wrote over 60 novels about life in high society New York. Sad day. . .

by: gradysdad @ Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 17:34:37 PM CST

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two degrees also (4.00 / 1)

I knew Joyce Maynard 20+ years ago. She had a brief involvement with the anti-nuke movement during the 80's when she was married.

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Prep School Reading List (4.00 / 1)

Auchnicloss's The Rector of Justin, along with Catcher and Phillips Exeter Academy alum John Knowles' A Separate Peace, made up the Great Prep School Trilogy back in the day. Do people still read them?

Auchnicloss was a third cousin of FDR and a cousin-by-marriage of Jacqueline Kennedy - in WASP World those things count - so there's a political connection, too.

by: Tim Ashwell @ Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 07:16:16 AM CST

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Great Story (4.00 / 1)

I was at lunch today when the discussion came to the death of Salinger and the lady across the table from me told me her story about reading Catcher in the Rye for the first time.

She grew up in a very isolated part of a rural state out West. She was the first one in her family to go to college. The summer before starting her freshman year, the college sent all the freshmen Catcher in the Rye to read in preparation for English class in the fall.

Her logger father, who had dropped out of school early, and her housewife mother, who had an eighth grade education, decided to read aloud the book with her! As they went along, she did not know whether she was more shocked than her parents. . . The experience of reading the book together out loud is still part of her family lore.

by: gradysdad @ Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 17:01:48 PM CST

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Yo! (4.00 / 1)

Don't be such a stranger, my man.

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 17:08:47 PM CST

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Yo, back to you! (4.00 / 1)

Jack, when I read your comments on Blue Hampshire I am usually struck speachless in one way or the other . . :)

Keep up the good work and the faith.

by: gradysdad @ Sat Jan 30, 2010 at 04:15:54 AM CST

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NECN (0.00 / 0)

Their segment on JD included Steve Taylor's memories of him.

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NHPR too n/t (0.00 / 0)

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