JD SALINGER DEAD

Author of the most seminal piece of world literature to emerge from the 20th century Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger is dead at 91.

Salinger who shied away from press coverage, was rarely seen much less photographed, died at his beloved remote Cornish, N.H. home.

Much will be said in the coming days about Salinger's influence on the disaffected self-absorbed youth in rebellion  that has described every generation after World War 2 but emboldened by his protagonist Holden Caulfield, who was so enraged by ALL the "phonies" that  make "me so depressed I GO crazy."

Salinger wrote for adults but his readership was teens, the disaffected youth of the world who saw Holden Caulfield as a  projection of their own age of anxiety and discontent.

The book was banned by many school libraries when it was first pubb'ed in 1951.

"I'm aware that a number of my friends will be saddened, or shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters of The Catcher in the Rye.

"Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children," Salinger wrote in 1955.

"It's almost unbearable to me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach."

One thing for sure - JD Salinger was NO phony but a true American original and he shall be missed by ALL  -- of he and Holden's --  children.