Watch World News with Diane Sawyer tonight for more on this story. " books matter to people in a way that books don't always matter - either then or now." "Before a paragraph is over you are in the mind of a certain kind of kid with certain kinds of problems in a certain country at a certain period of time, " said Remnick. "I think there was something about his ability to reach the voice of American youth," said David Remnick, editor of New Yorker magazine in an interview with ABC News, "in particular, in post-war America and during the war. The Modern Library and its readers has named it one of the 100 Best Novels in the English Language in the 20th Century. His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters." It has sold 60 million copies worldwide.Ī statement released by his literary agency today said "Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it. The book was released in 1951 and has been a top seller ever since.
The author's son, through Salinger's literary agent, said Salinger died at his home in New Hampshire of natural causes.įor several generations of American high school students, the "Catcher in the Rye" was a seminal coming-of-age work assigned in English class, and the tormented teenager Holden Caulfield became a synonym for alienated adolescence.
Salinger, who wrote the iconic "Catcher in the Rye," has died at age 91.
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