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jan 01 Learn More J.D. Salinger Born


Happy New Year, phonies! Celebrated American author and crotchety recluse J.D. Salinger was born on this crumby day in 1919. His most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), is one of many books that has been both banned and required as reading in U.S. schools.

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