Today is J.D. Salinger’s 100th birthday, but Holden Caulfield is still 17. The iconic teenager of The Catcher in the Rye will forever be a symbol of our youthful alienation.

Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, Salinger served as a counterintelligence agent in the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, but "The Catcher in the Rye" author kept on writing.

Besides, Salinger famously carried six chapters of “The Catcher in the Rye” with him on D-Day, the first action he saw. That novel, too, at least partially preexisted the war.

SLIGHT Rebellion off Madison, the short story that would become JD Salinger’s iconic novel Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1941. This first incarnation of Holden Caulfield appeared in The ...

It's rare to find signed works of J.D. Salinger's, but this inscribed copy of The Catcher in the Rye is being sold by Peter Harrington Books in the U.K. for £225,000.

In J. D. Salinger’s first novel, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of yet another prep school, and sets off to wander New York City as he wrestles with looming adulthood.

When J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye was published back in the 1950s, reactions to the book were mixed.

(Supplied: Palace Films) In 1951 J.D. Salinger released Catcher in the Rye, an instant classic of teenage angst and alienation that inspired adoration in its admirers.

Rebel in the Rye, a long-in-limbo biopic of Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger, is already something of a time capsule. A relic presumably once designed for Oscar attention, it also bears the ...