Catcher in the Rye Author J.D. Salinger Dies at 91

The author of the famed novel Catcher in the Rye has passed away."]
J.D. Salinger, famed author of The Catcher in the Rye (1951), as well as other works including the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" which was published in The New Yorker, died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire on January 27, 2010.

As the notoriety of The Catcher in the Rye grew, Salinger gradually withdrew from society and in 1953, he moved from New York to Cornish, New Hampshire.

Salinger famously had an eight-month affair with  Joyce Maynard in the 1970s when she was 18 and he was 53. A writer herself, Maynard's wrote a  memoir entitled, At Home In The World in 1998, which  spotlighted her affair with the famous author,  prompting  Salinger's last public appearance when he wrote a letter to Maynard, responding to concerns about a recent piece she wrote for the New York Times.

Maynard famously said "Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. "

Salinger's literary representative commented told The New York Times that  Salinger had broken his hip in May 2009, but that "his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year. He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death."