'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies
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NaboCaneNew MemberOP
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 longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_salinger
BigDogsHuntNew MemberBest Baseball Book ever...
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RIP JD
BDH -
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
Jimmy V. (Mar '93)
NaboCaneNew MemberThe mystery grows: What's in Salinger's safe?
NEW YORK – So what about the safe? The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature's most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, N.H? Are they masterpieces, curiosities or random scribbles?
And if there are publishable works, will the author's estate release them?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_salinger
The last thing he published was a short story in 1965. Wonder what's hidden away?
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