Probably the greatest writer in American history. 89 year old Salinger had many stories published in The New Yorker but has had only
four books published; The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. His last
work published was Hapworth 16, 1924 in The New Yorker in 1965. His last interview was in 1980 and since then he has become sort of a recluse and lives a quite
life in New Hampshire. Salinger almost always writes about young, very intelligent and cynical
people and his
work appeals greatly to a younger audience because of his theme of loss of innocence and adolescent alienation.
I think for the past 40 years
J. D. Salinger has been working on a huge masterpiece that
will be published when he dies and blow
us all away.