Thursday, January 28, 2010

R.I.P.: J. D. Salinger



Surely one of our more eccentric and important writers. I remember a Time mag photo decades ago of Salinger's foot disappearing around the corner of a house, the best a photographer could do with this reclusive writer. They had to use art on the cover (1961). He had reason to run: Hollywood turned his story "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" into "My Foolish Heart" with Susan Hayward. Any sane man would run and still be running!

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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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
J.D. Salinger

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