JD Salinger, 1919-2010

A private man who valued his personal space and being left alone, Salinger had struggled with unwelcome attention and legal battles more than once, most recently last year when he filed a lawsuit against the author of 60 years Later: Coming Through the Rye, an unauthorized and (extremely) thinly veiled sequel which features Holden Caulfield as an elderly man, leaving his nursing home and taking a trip to New York.

Salinger’s son has issued a statement that his father died at home, on January 27th, of natural causes.