J.D. Salinger Dead at 91

Author J.D. Salinger has died at 91. The author of “The Catcher in the Rye” died on Wednesday in his New Hampshire home.

He had recently broken his hip but was doing well when he suddenly became ill and died of natural causes.

It sounds like a quiet end to a quiet man who greatly enriched the world with a literary masterpiece.

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.

~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1

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