Well, it's happened.
J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye has passed on at age 91, giving Death Rattle of the Mariachi first points for the year.
Sought after as the Holy Grail of interviews, he lived as an almost absolute hermit for the last 3 decades and although he continued to write, he stated flatly in a 1980 interview, "I write for myself, and I want to be left absolutely alone to do it."
Without an ironic tone to be heard, "Mr. Salinger, we hardly knew ye."
Jerome David Salinger
January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010
Correction: Jean Simmons passed on January 22, 2010. Maraichis have the second hit.
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