The world bid farewell to the legendary author J.D. Salinger today, a loss that resonated throughout The New York Public Library.
“Teens still come in to the library every day to check out Salinger books especially The Catcher In The Rye,” said Jack Martin, the Assistant Director of Public Programs and Lifelong Learning at The Library. “With Holden Caufield he created a cultural icon that that captures what it means to be an outcast that still resonant with today’s teens.”
“J. D. Salinger was one of those very few writers whose enormous artistic achievement is out of all proportion to the small place their writings occupy on the bookshelf,” said Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of The New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. “His one great novel was, of course, Catcher in the Rye, but several of the “Franny and Zooey” Glass family stories, especially the first, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” are also classics. As with all great writers at their best, Salinger seemed never to stumble, and from the moment you begin to read their work, you are immersed in their world, with every detail of it perfectly imagined and rendered.
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