![]() "An unusually brilliant first novel," The New York Times called it, one of many raves. IReport: Tell us what 'Catcher' meant to you Caulfield is mistrustful of authority, railing against corrupt adults and "phonies," and plans to decamp for the west. The book is narrated by a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who is expelled from a private school, Pencey Prep, in Pennsylvania, and spends the next three days wandering around New York. Though he wrote more than 30 short stories and a handful of novellas - many published in The New Yorker and collected in works such as "Nine Stories" and "Seymour: An Introduction" - Salinger's fame rests on "Catcher," his only novel. ![]() ![]() "The family asks that people's respect for him, his work, and his privacy be extended to them, individually and collectively, during this time." Salinger has long been known for his reclusiveness, and "in keeping with his life long, uncompromising desire to protect and defend his privacy there will be no service," the statement said. "He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death." "Despite having broken his hip in May, his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year," the statement said. The author died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire, according to a family statement that his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg, provided Thursday. ![]() Salinger, the famously reclusive author whose 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," became a touchstone for generations of readers, has died. ![]()
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