'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 12:26 p.m. CST; updated 5:46 p.m. CST, Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.

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