JD Salinger dead at 91

[deception]

http://www.einsiders.com/hollywood-...the-rye-jd-salinger-dies-january-27-2010.html

Jan. 27, 2010, enigmatic literary author, has died at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire where he has lived in isolation for the last 50 years. Salinger was 91.

Mr. Salinger’s literary agent, Phyllis Westberg stated, “Despite having broken his hip in May, his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year. He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death.”

The devoutly private author of The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger was probably most famous for not wanting to be famous. He denounced publishing, declined to be interviewed and turned Hollywood away when they wanted to make a movie of his one and only novel. Hollywood legend has it that Steven Spielberg, Miramax heavy-weight Harvey Weinstein and the late Billy Wilder all tried and failed to secure the movie rights.

Catcher is narrated by a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who is expelled from a private school and spends the next three days wandering around New York. Caulfield's attitude of rebellion struck a cord with teenagers and has remained a best seller since its release. The book gained further controversy when several readers seemed to be obsessed with it, most infamously Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon in 1980.

J.D. Salinger continued to write after the release of Catcher In The Rye, however, it was less frequent. He wrote more than thirty short stories and a few novellas. Many were published in The New Yorker and collected in works such as "Nine Stories" and "Seymour: An Introduction"

Of his death, his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg commented, "Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it. His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters...He will be missed by the few he was close to every bit as much as by the readers who loved reading him."

 

[Run BJM]

Interesting because one of my most glaring memories of high school was my freshman English/Lit teacher ranting about how many people (himself included I reckon) couldn't wait for him to die to get a hold of all of the work he's done since he became a recluse.

Haven't read it since I was 14 but I thought Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame. If a book about the thoughts of a whiny-as-fuck young man struggling to cope with adulthood can make you a fortune then I'm a fucking gold mine. I gotta start documenting my uninteresting complaints and thoughts.

 

[J_Ray]

Interesting because one of my most glaring memories of high school was my freshman English/Lit teacher ranting about how many people (himself included I reckon) couldn't wait for him to die to get a hold of all of the work he's done since he became a recluse.

Haven't read it since I was 14 but I thought Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame. If a book about the thoughts of a whiny-as-fuck young man struggling to cope with adulthood can make you a fortune then I'm a fucking gold mine. I gotta start documenting my uninteresting complaints and thoughts.

Quit being a bitch.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Sad news. How long does he have to be deceased before they get the rights to make a movie?

 

[deception]

Interesting because one of my most glaring memories of high school was my freshman English/Lit teacher ranting about how many people (himself included I reckon) couldn't wait for him to die to get a hold of all of the work he's done since he became a recluse.

Haven't read it since I was 14 but I thought Catcher in the Rye was pretty lame. If a book about the thoughts of a whiny-as-fuck young man struggling to cope with adulthood can make you a fortune then I'm a fucking gold mine. I gotta start documenting my uninteresting complaints and thoughts.

haha. i think we wrote letters to salinger as an assignment. as for catcher in the rye- i must admit- i thought it was a defining book of my adolescence, although, today i would dismissed young holden's bitching as conspicuous rebellion. nevertheless, in grade nine- i identified with him.

 

[deception]

Sad news. How long does he have to be deceased before they get the rights to make a movie?

u know most books dont translate well over to the big screen.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

u know most books dont translate well over to the big screen.

Okay, that's relevant to the question how?

 

[deception]

Okay, that's relevant to the question how?

its not but hopefully u learned something in the process.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Should I feel offended, humored, or thankful?

 

[AKIRA]

Sad news. How long does he have to be deceased before they get the rights to make a movie?

copyright last the authors lifetime, plus 70 years, so 70 years from now, if somebody buys the publishing rights and copyright, they might decide to make a movie...