I heard that JD Salinger passed away the other day at the age of 91. I only recognize the name from hearing it over the years and of course being the creator of the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. I came across a piece on a Fox News web site that interested me so I thought that I would share.

This article told of a secret safe and that got me to read on… I discovered that the famous writer was quite a recluse and had not published anything since 1965. He must have made quite a bundle on “Catcher” because it sounds like he lived on an Estate in New Hampshire which sounds ritzy to me?

Anyway the story was about the safe and whether he had stowed away writings or maybe a novel masterpiece that got the literary world buzzing. They interviewed cronies and the son and daughter about the safe’s contents but you get different answers from each. So nobody seems to know what is in there and won’t until they open it.

“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,” J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in 1974. “Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”

I guess that having enough money enables one to be able to live that statement?