From the moment he arrived, as the narrator of a novel called “The Catcher in the Rye,” he couldn’t have upset school officials any more if he’d walked into class wearing a red dress and ...

"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.

The pond Holden visited is northwest of the park entrance at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. Chances are you’ll see the ducks.

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 ...

Today is J.D. Salinger’s 100th birthday, and Holden Caulfield may have been a symbol of youthful alienation when it was first published, but would he still have a voice in today's world?

I read “The Catcher in the Rye” for the first time as a college student, and now I’m convinced that most people read the book too early.

NEW YORK -- 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.

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

The pond Holden visited is northwest of the park entrance at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. Chances are you'll see the ducks. "Some migrate but mostly they're around," said Miller, the park historian.

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 91.

His father was a wealthy importer of cheeses and meat and the family lived for years on Park Avenue. Like Holden, Salinger was an indifferent student with a history of trouble in various schools.