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Fri 01 Jan 2010'Salinger the writer died in 1965'
JD Salinger died yesterday, but his celebrated book ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is an overrated work that took over the author’s life and sent him into seclusion, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY, Literary Correspondent
HE BECAME famous on the publication of one iconic book, The Catcher in the Rye, he has remained famous ever since, largely through his efforts to ward off the outside world. JD Salinger the man died yesterday at the age of 91, but the writer “died” a long time ago, in 1965, when his last published story, Hapworth 16, 1924, featured in the New Yorker.
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