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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 29 > J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dies

J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dies

By Charles McGrath / The Bulletin
January 29, 2010

J.D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had....

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