![]() ![]() Salinger could have been a meat importer – his father was a successful meat and cheese merchant who sent his son to Austria to brush up on the trade before the second world war. It might have been sacrificed for a career in meat You don't have to be a murderer to like it, though. Robert John Bardo, another killer, was carrying a copy of the book the night he murdered actress Rebecca Schaeffer. Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon, so identified with the Salinger's antihero that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. During the campaign from Normandy to Germany, he met Ernest Hemingway, with whom he went on to exchange letters. Salinger was working on a version of the book when he was fighting in the second world war. Jerry Lewis longed to play Holden Caulfield, and John Cusack is on record mourning the fact that once he was past 21, he was too old to take the role. Among those who have tried to get a film version made are Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Salinger spent a lot of time refusing requests to adapt the novel. ![]() My sex life stinks." Hurrah for disaffected teenagers across the globe. The novel is said to have popularised the term "screw up", as in "Boy, it really screws up my sex life something awful. Now it can be told … JD Salinger poses for a portrait as he reads from his novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1952.
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