Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose j. D. Salingers one of the most successful authors of all time. His 1951 novel catcher in the rye. It is a classic sold over 250,000 eafer a million copies and continues to sell over 250,000 each year. He turned his back on fame and chose instead the life. Salerno shows his life. Heres a trailer for salinger. In 1979 i got an assignment for Newsweek Magazine to photograph this author. He doesnt like to be photograph but we do know he picks up his mail in windsor vermont. So i waited and this jeep pulls up and he goes into the post office really quickly and when he came out, i got it, i got salinger. The publication of catcher in the rye in 1951 was a revolution. There had not been a voice like that. When youre a kid and you read catcher in the rye its like oh my god someone gets it. How many minions came to that book. The great mystery is why he stopped. Salinger was a national sto
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