j. d. salinger dies.....

J.D. Salinger: An enigma to the very end

"The reclusive writer who gave literary voice to the
emotional and psychological anguish of teenagers [my self included]
throughout the world is gone. [ummmmm, not REALLY.....]

J.D. Salinger, 91, author of the 1951 masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye,
died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Cornish, N.H.,
the author's son, Matt Salinger, said in a statement from the author's
literary representative, Harold Ober Associates.

Catcher in the Rye was the only Salinger novel released in his lifetime, ....."

[ ] are mine

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-01-28-salinger-obit_N.htm?csp=34