Catcher in the rye?

Question

i just re read this novel after many years, and i was astonished at how fresh it still seems, that guys way of descirbing characters was immense
is salanger still around?

Answer 1

After the notoriety of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger gradually withdrew into himself. In 1953 he moved from New York to Cornish, New Hampshire. Salinger later moved to the more rural Marlow, New Hampshire, keeping his Cornish residence as a diversion to the ever increasing numbers of intruders. He is a recluse and as He was born in 1919 is in his mid eighties now.

Answer 2

Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. (His mother changed her name to Miriam and passed as Jewish when she married; J. D. did not find out that his mother was not Jewish until just after his bar mitzvah [1]). His father, Solomon, worked for a meat importer. The young Salinger attended public schools on the West Side, the private McBurney School in ninth and tenth grades, and then was happy to get away from the overprotectiveness of his mother by entering the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, [2] upon which Pencey Prep in The Catcher in the Rye is based. He started his freshman year at New York University (NYU) but dropped out the next spring to work on a cruise ship. The next fall, he was prevailed upon to learn the meat-importation business and was sent to work at the company in Vienna, where he could also perfect his French and German skills. He left Austria only a month or so before the country fell to Hitler, on March 12, 1938. That fall he attended Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, but for only one semester. While there, Salinger was called "the worst English student in the history of the College" by one of his professors.

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Answer 3

Catcher in the Rye...still the favourite of a disproportionate number of serial killers. Great book. Masterpiece.

Answer 4

I think he's still alive - but Catcher in the Rye was the only book he ever wrote.

Answer 5

He was born on New Year's Day 1919 and I don't find that he's dead yet. He was last reported as still trying to make babies!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger

The best literature has a perennial freshness to it.

Answer 6

Yes he's still alive! Great book too, I read it years ago I was thinking of going back to it. Maybe I will.

Answer 7

Catcher in the rye.............emporers new clothes..........People think that it's great because of John Lennon's killer and J.F.kennedy's.......what a pile of pants........It's so deep and meaningful? Nope it's a badly written, over rated, book.

Answer 8

Yes, apparently alive and lives in New Hampshire.

Answer 9

Salinger is still alive, but as he is a recluse it's hard to describe him as being "around".

Answer 10

I agree! I would love to see a WELL-DONE dramatisation of it.

And Salinger's still with us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Salinger