JD Salinger RIP: Mark David Chapman Was My Agent
by Anorak | 28th, January 2010
JEROME D Salinger is dead. Salinger wrote The Catcher In The Rye. You read it. It was OK. It was short. It sold in the millions. After he killed John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman said he did it “to promote the reading” of that book. John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, left behind a copy in his hotel room. Shallow America read much meaning into this. More books sold. Killers can read. Who knew? Was Chapman just a literary agent who went too far? Salinger wrote one novel and three volumes of stories. He shunned the limelight with a scowl. These are the pictures of his life:
Posted: 28th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
