KING: ‘NOW WE’LL SEE IF SALINGER LEFT BEHIND A LITERARY TREASURE TROVE’
Horror author-turned-columnist STEPHEN KING has paid tribute to literary = great J.D. SALINGER - even though he was never a big fan.
In a post on EW.com, the Carrie writer admits he’s intrigued by what th= e reclusive Salinger wrote and didn’t publish in the last three decades o= f his life.
King says, "I=E2=80=99m sorry to hear of his passing - the way you=E2=80= =99d feel if you heard an eccentric, short-tempered, but often fascinatin= g uncle had passed away.
"It is a milestone of sorts, because Salinger was the last of the great= post-WWII American writers, and in (his The Catcher in the Rye anti-hero= ) Holden Caulfield - maybe the greatest American-boy narrator since (Tom = Sawyer character) Huck Finn - he created an authentic Voice of the Age: f= unny, anxious, at odds with himself, and badly lost.
"Salinger=E2=80=99s death may answer one question that has intrigued re= aders, writers, and critics for nearly half a century - what literary tro= ve of unpublished work may he have left behind? Much? Some? Or none? Sali= nger is gone, but if we=E2=80=99re lucky, he may have more to say, even s= o." Salinger passed away at his home in New Hampshire on Wednesday (27Jan10= ). He was 91.
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