Tag Archive 'Literary Giant'

Some people thought that with Franny and Zooey, Salinger demonstrated a love for his fictional family, the Glasses, which no reader could be expected to …

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/01/28/breaking-j-d-salinger-is-dead/

J. D. Salinger, the reclusive literary giant whose novel The Catcher in the Rye gave voice to the angst and despair of generations of adolescents, died at his US home yesterday. He was 91. Salinger, whose 1951 novel propelled him to instant fame in a …
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