Author J.D. Salinger has died at the age of 91. Photo: file photo.
Best-selling author J.D. Salinger has died at the age of 91.
Perhaps best-known for his novels Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, Salinger was notorious for his desire to stay out of the limelight.
But whether he wanted to be in the public eye or not, his novels touched the lives of millions -- and continue to do so today. Catcher in the Rye, in particular, has become a curriculum standard for most high school students. That is, when it's not being contested by parents angry about its vulgarity and use of profanity.
According to the Associated Press,
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.
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