RIP J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger has died aged 91. The reclusive author, whose most famous novel is The Catcher in the Rye, hadn't published anything since 1965. However it's believed he didn't stop writing, so it'll be interesting to see what posthumous work is published.
As far as I know (from the newspaper obituary and article), unlike other writers he doesn't seem to have left instructions asking for his unpublished work to be destroyed. Not that that is necessarily adhered to. Kafka asked that all his papers be burnt, they weren't, so we have his later works, Nabokov asked for his unfinised manuscript to be destroyed, instead it is being published.
The Catcher in the Rye is considered a seminal text, a story of teenage alienation and frustration. Holden Caulfield as the ultimate anti-hero, he's unpleasant and self-obsessed. What teenager hasn't sometimes been like that. It speaks to the rebel we all want to be in our teens, the person who wants more than what the 'phonies' can offer us. It wasn't exactly popular on publication, seen by some parents as unsuitable for teenagers, because of its bad language and themes, however some more enlightened people made it required reading, it's still available on most schools' library shelves.