GOD KNOWS it’s never been hard to find a 16-year-old boy who feels like he screws everything up and responds by yelling that it doesn’t matter because everyone’s all a bunch of je… ...

Last updated 2:45 p.m. ET. J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died.

NEW YORK — Where do the ducks go in the winter? It’s a question Holden Caulfield, moody teenage narrator of the classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” asks about the ducks in the Central ...

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died ...

Ruth Freer, an English teacher at Highland Park High School, about 30 miles from Chicago, teaches "The Catcher in the Rye," and she created a "Holden tour" for herself on a visit to Manhattan not ...

“The Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger, was published in 1951. But nearly all the landmarks Holden mentions as he wanders around Manhattan at Christmastime — the Rockefeller Center ...

"The Catcher in the Rye," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence.

Today is J.D. Salinger’s 100th birthday, but Holden Caulfield is still 17. The iconic teenager of The Catcher in the Rye will forever be a symbol of our youthful alienation.. Although a few ...

If you’re a bit late to this Salinger classic, let me fill you in — Holden Caulfield is a recently-expelled 16-year-old prep school student, and “The Catcher in the Rye” is his first-person retelling ...

J.D. Salinger, a giant of 20th century American letters and author of "The Catcher in the Rye" who had shunned the public eye for decades, died Wednesday at his home in rural Cornish, N.H. He was ...

NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, 91, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died.