Jerome David Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye was died yesterday at age 91 in New Hampshire. JD Salinger’s book that has sold over 60 million copies worldwide and still sells 250,000 every year, was aimed at adults but his character immediately became the quintessential anti-hero of a generation, the of adolescents growing up during the Cold War, who saw his fierce criticism against the world and morality of the fifties reflected their own concerns and anxieties.
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