Holden Caulfield is the main character in which 1951 novel?
"The Catcher in the Rye in popular culture The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence as it remains both a bestseller and a frequently challenged book. Numerous works in popular culture have referenced the novel. Factors contributing to the novel's mystique and impact include its portrayal of protagonist Holden Caulfield; its tone of sincerity; its themes of familial neglect, tension between teens and society, and rebellion; its previous banned status; and Salinger's reclusiveness. ""The Catcher in the Rye"" has inspired ""rewrites"" which have been said to form their own genre."
"issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, and connection. The novel was included on ""Time""s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at #15 on the BBC's survey ""The Big Read"". Holden Caulfield, a teenager, is living in an unspecified institution in Southern California near Hollywood in 1951. Caulfield intends to live with his brother D.B, an author and World War II veteran with whom Holden is angry for becoming"
"the name for his character Holden Caulfield, in ""The Catcher in the Rye"" and other works, when he saw a marquee for the film, the first Holden Caulfield story, ""I'm Crazy"", was published in December 1945, a year and a half before the movie's release. Judge Wilkins and his wife Edie are puzzled when Lieutenant William Seacroft, a complete stranger, shows up at their home, asking for their elder, 22-year-old daughter Ruth. (She has gone to work at the bank, driven by her 34-year-old boyfriend Albert.) Bill has just returned from Italy, where he flew 25 missions over Germany as"
"William Holden and Joan Caulfield, Salinger's first Holden Caulfield story, ""I'm Crazy,"" appeared in ""Collier's"" on December 22, 1945, a year and a half before this movie was released. Holden is naive and at the same time resentful of the adult world. One of Holden's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for ""phony"" qualities, a catch-all term for the perceived hypocrisy that irritates Holden. It is this cynicism that causes him to distance himself from other people, despite wanting connection as well. Holden is very much a character of contradiction; at seventeen years of age he is"
"tells his story with surprising honesty from a hospital in California in a cynical and jaded language. The character, as Holden Morrisey Caulfield, appears in Salinger's ""Slight Rebellion off Madison"", published in the December 21, 1946, issue of ""The New Yorker"". An earlier version of this story, titled ""Are You Banging Your Head Against a Wall?"" was accepted for publication by ""The New Yorker"" in October 1941, but was not published then because editors found the tone to be too desolate for its readership. An edited version of this short story later became the basis of several chapters in the"
"in the Rye"" for the screen, including one from Samuel Goldwyn. Since its publication, there has been sustained interest in the novel among filmmakers, with Billy Wilder, Harvey Weinstein, and Steven Spielberg among those seeking to secure the rights. Salinger stated in the 1970s that ""Jerry Lewis tried for years to get his hands on the part of Holden."" Salinger repeatedly refused, though, and in 1999, Joyce Maynard definitively concluded: ""The only person who might ever have played Holden Caulfield would have been J. D. Salinger."" In a July 1951 profile in ""Book of the Month Club News"", Salinger's friend"
"and is widely considered to be among the reasons that Salinger refused to allow any subsequent film adaptations of his work. The enduring popularity of ""The Catcher in the Rye"", however, has resulted in repeated attempts to secure the novel's screen rights. When ""The Catcher in the Rye"" was first released, many offers were made to adapt it for the screen, including one from Samuel Goldwyn, producer of ""My Foolish Heart"". In a letter written in the early 1950s, Salinger spoke of mounting a play in which he would play the role of Holden Caulfield opposite Margaret O'Brien, and, if"
"in the Rye's main character Holden Caulfield. On the other hand, the ""Lodi News-Sentinel"" hoped that abused youth would be persuaded to look for help after reading this book. ""The Washington Post"" said overall ""You Don't Know Me"" was "" a fast-paced, completely readable book"". You Don't Know Me (novel) You Don't Know Me is a coming-of-age novel by David Klass which tells the tale of a young boy who is abused and faces pressure in his school. It was first published in 2001. John is a fourteen-year-old boy. He lives with his mother and his mother's boyfriend, Stan, who"
"of the story is that his sister Viola gets her first, and only, mention in the Caulfield saga. ""This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise"" (""Esquire"", 1945) has a mention of Holden missing in action during the war. ""Last Day of the Last Furlough"" relates the final day of Babe Gladwaller before he leaves to fight in World War II. Gladwaller spends part of the day with his little sister before Vincent Caulfield (later renamed D.B. in the novel) arrives. At that point Vincent is a fellow soldier about to leave for the war. Vincent announces that his brother, Holden, has been"
"apparently being cancelled altogether. Amazon anticipated that Orchises would publish the story in January 2009, but at the time of his death it was still listed as ""currently unavailable"". In June 2009, Salinger consulted lawyers about the upcoming publication in the US of an unauthorized sequel to ""The Catcher in the Rye"" written by Swedish book publisher Fredrik Colting under the pseudonym 'J. D. California'. California's book is called """", and appears to pick up the story of Salinger's protagonist Holden Caulfield. In Salinger's novel, Caulfield is 16 years old, wandering the streets of New York after being expelled from"
"he couldn't play the part himself, to ""forget about it."" Almost 50 years later, the writer Joyce Maynard definitively concluded, ""The only person who might ever have played Holden Caulfield would have been J. D. Salinger."" Salinger told Maynard in the 1970s that Jerry Lewis ""tried for years to get his hands on the part of Holden,"" despite Lewis not having read the novel until he was in his thirties. Celebrities ranging from Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio have since tried to make a film adaptation. In an interview with ""Premiere"", John Cusack commented"
"(in 1957, 1968, and 2008), and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The protagonist is Bill Masen, a biologist who has made his living working with triffids – tall, venomous carnivorous plants capable of locomotion. Due to his background, Masen suspects they were bioengineered in the USSR and accidentally released into the wild. The result is worldwide cultivation of triffids. The narrative begins with Bill Masen in hospital, his eyes bandaged after having been splashed"
"try and grab it. Peter Beidler, in his ""A Reader's Companion to J. D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"""", identifies the movie that the prostitute ""Sunny"" refers to. In chapter 13 she says that in the movie a boy falls off a boat. The movie is ""Captains Courageous"" (1937), starring Spencer Tracy. Sunny says that Holden looks like the boy who fell off the boat. Beidler shows (page 28) a still of the boy, played by child-actor Freddie Bartholomew. Each Caulfield child has literary talent. D.B. writes screenplays in Hollywood; Holden also reveres D.B. for his writing skill (Holden's"
"the psychologist Holden meets occultist Karswell for the first time in the British Library, which until 1998 was housed within the museum. In 1954, she became the First Honorary Commander of the 582d Air Resupply Squadron at RAF Molesworth, England to be designated by the United States Air Force Squadron. She was married to Derek Dunnett (William Herbert Derek Dunnett) from 1950 until his death in 2000; and had two children with him, a son in 1954, and a daughter in 1962. Her husband, who came from a wealthy family, was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, on 9 February 1921,"
"road, recalling the antics of his famous teammates, including Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson, Richie Allen, and Warren Spahn. The July 1985 issue of National Lampoon included a parody of the novel, ostensibly written by Holden Caulfield's son, entitled 'The Son of the Catcher, who Lives in Rye'. In Postal 2 a book by the name of ""Catch her in the Rye"" is present. In December 1991, punk rock band Green Day released their second studio album (Kerplunk), containing the song ""Who Wrote Holden Caulfield"". The song describes said character as crazy, frustrated, and lacking motivation. Guns and Roses album Chinese"
"the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948) 70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) 71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951) 72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951) 73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953) 74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) 75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957) 77. Voss by Patrick White (1957) 78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960) 80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 81. The"
"The letter referred to is sent from Holden Caulfield (later the protagonist of ""The Catcher in the Rye"") to his younger brother in this story, Kenneth. ""The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls"", along with the short stories ""Birthday Boy"" and ""Paula"", was printed in a small edition titled ""Three Stories"", reportedly in 1999, a copy of which was sold on eBay and then posted on internet file sharing sites in late November 2013. The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls ""The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls"" is an unpublished work by J. D. Salinger. It is about the death of Kenneth"
"there are versions of the film on the internet continuing to leak online. The rights to the film are currently owned by ITV Studios, while the film is distributed in North America by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In chapter 10 of J. D. Salinger's novel ""The Catcher in the Rye"", the protagonist Holden Caulfield recounts the admiration that he and his younger sister Phoebe have for the movie. In the ""Sesame Street"" segment ""Monsterpiece Theater"" Alistair Cookie (Cookie Monster) introduces the audience to the thriller film, ""The 39 Stairs"" (""By guy named Alfred...""). Grover in a film noir setting climbs a set of"
"Caulfield and his younger sister Phoebe in Salinger's later novel ""The Catcher in the Rye"". The story was first published in ""The Saturday Evening Post"", March 31, 1945. It subsequently appeared in the 1946 collection ""Post Stories 1942–45"", edited by Ben Hibbs. The ""Saturday Evening Post"" republished the story in its July/August 2010 issue as a memorial to Salinger. There is some doubt that such a republication would have been possible were Salinger still alive. The story starts with Babe finishing his canned army rations. He makes small talk with a comrade and looks for a fox hole to rest"
"1952, ""The Killer Inside Me"" was published. It is perhaps Thompson's finest and best-known novel. The narrator, Lou Ford, is a small-town deputy sheriff who appears amiable, pleasant and slightly dull-minded. Ford is actually very intelligent and fighting a nearly-constant urge to act violently; Ford describes his urge as ""the sickness"" (always italicised). Lion Books unsuccessfully attempted to have ""The Killer Inside Me"" nominated for a National Book Award. It was eponymously adapted to the cinema, in 1976 (by director Burt Kennedy, with Stacy Keach as Lou Ford), and again in 2010 (by director Michael Winterbottom, with Casey Affleck as"
"Davies suggests that it ""comes across as fan fiction"", calling it ""harmless nonsense"" with ""none of the edginess that still oozes from ""The Catcher in the Rye"""". John David California John David California was the pseudonym used by Swedish book publisher Fredrik Colting when on 7 May 2009 he published ""60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye"" in the United Kingdom. The book was presented as a sequel to ""The Catcher in the Rye"" by J. D. Salinger, with Salinger's antihero Holden Caulfield now a 76-year-old man on the run from a nursing home. Salinger, who died in January 2010,"
"The Borrowers Afield The Borrowers Afield is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1955 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the second of five books in a series that is usually called ""The Borrowers"", inaugurated by ""The Borrowers"" in 1952. Kate, looking at a cottage with her friend Mrs May, learns that the present tenant, Tom Goodenough, knows Arrietty Clock, a tiny ""Borrower"" also known to Mrs May's brother. Tom relates the troubles of Arrietty and her parents. Driven from their home in an old English house, unable to track down"
"The Sleeping Father The Sleeping Father is a novel by Matthew Sharpe first published in 2003 about an average middle-class American family struck by betrayal, separation, and illness. In particular, it is about the coming of age of the two teenage members of the family despite, or rather through, the troubles that befall them. Wisecracking his way through life until he has eventually reached adulthood, 17-year-old Chris Schwartz has provoked comparison with Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of Salinger's novel ""The Catcher in the Rye"". The Schwartzes live their ordinary lives in the aptly named (and fictional) small town of Bellwether,"
"them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part. In the first and longest work in the book, the year is 1960. A young boy named Bobby Garfield lives in Harwich, Connecticut, with his mother, Liz, a widow. He befriends a man named Ted Brautigan, who possesses psychic abilities. Ted appears to be in some way connected to the Dark Tower; he confesses to Bobby that he is being stalked by ""low men"" who work for The Crimson King. Although Bobby agrees to let Ted know when he starts"
"John David California John David California was the pseudonym used by Swedish book publisher Fredrik Colting when on 7 May 2009 he published ""60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye"" in the United Kingdom. The book was presented as a sequel to ""The Catcher in the Rye"" by J. D. Salinger, with Salinger's antihero Holden Caulfield now a 76-year-old man on the run from a nursing home. Salinger, who died in January 2010, was in the process of suing Colting for copyright infringement, and had succeeded in getting a court order which indefinitely bans the publication, advertising or distribution of"
"adopted a daughter, named Jane after Jane Austen. Garfield became a successful children's writer in the 1960s. Her own first book published was ""The Haunting of Cassie Palmer"", from Methuen in 1980 when she was 56 years old. She followed ""The Haunting"" with ""The Stonewalkers"" (1981) and about twenty others. ""The Cuckoo Sister"" (1985) and ""The Monster Garden"" (1988) are her two most widely held works as catalogued by WorldCat libraries. Awards Runners-up Listings Vivien Alcock Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books. Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West"
"""All of a sudden I miss everyone; I don't know why."". Another strong possibility is that the title refers to a famous ""The Catcher In The Rye"" quote during its 26th (and last) chapter. As narrated by its lead character Holden Caulfield: ""All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about."". The title of the song ""The Birth and Death of the Day"" appears in the 1952 novel ""East of Eden"" by John Steinbeck: I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light grey mountains full of sun and loveliness"
"relating to Holden Caulfield's cynicism and teenage angst. The novel culminates with Matías attempting to replicate Holden's self-inflicted isolation by fleeing his family, friends, and academics. He even purchases a red hunting hat to complete the persona. Ultimately, however, Matías is reunited with his father. Despite familial bouleversements, Matías finds peace and learns to embrace change: symbolizing the trepidation Chile faces as it undergoes a transition of power. ""Matias Vicuna"" - protagonist, teenage boy, pessimist, depressed ""Esteban Vicuna"" - Father of Matias ""Rosario Vicuna"" - Mother of Matias ""Nacho"" - Matias' best friend, military background, daddy issues ""Antonia"" - Matias'"
"in the Rye"" by J.D. Salinger and American short-story writer Raymond Carver. Brubaker chose the name because he is a fan of both writers, and he thought that ""...naming a guy after Holden Caulfield in a book about everything being phony was a funny idea."" In the story line, Holden Carver and most members of Tao's criminal organization have code names reflecting their special abilities. Holden Carver's code name is ""The Conductor"" in reference to his ability to store and transmit pain. However, the character prefers to go by his regular name and is referred to as Holden throughout the"
"boffin-hero, were further spread by Nevil Shute's novel ""No Highway"" (1948), Paul Brickhill's non-fiction book ""The Dambusters"" (1951) and Shute's autobiography """" (1954). Films of ""The Small Back Room"" (1948), ""No Highway"" (1951, as ""No Highway in the Sky""), and ""The Dambusters"" (1954) also featured boffins as heroes, as did stand-alone films such as ""The Man in the White Suit"" (1951) and ""The Sound Barrier"" (1952). John Wyndham's novel ""The Kraken Wakes"" includes a song called ""The Boffin's Lament"" or ""The Lay of the Baffled Boffin"". ""Boffin"" continued, in this immediate postwar period, to carry its wartime connotations: a modern-day"
"John Bardo's murder of Rebecca Schaeffer and John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Additionally, after fatally shooting John Lennon, Mark David Chapman was arrested with a copy of the book that he had purchased that same day, inside of which he had written: ""To Holden Caulfield, From Holden Caulfield, This is my statement"". Early in his career, Salinger expressed a willingness to have his work adapted for the screen. In 1949, a critically panned film version of his short story ""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"" was released; renamed ""My Foolish Heart"", the film took great liberties with Salinger's plot"
"stop the U.S. publication of a novel that presents Holden Caulfield as an old man. The novel's author, Fredrik Colting, commented: ""call me an ignorant Swede, but the last thing I thought possible in the U.S. was that you banned books"". The issue is complicated by the nature of Colting's book, ""60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye"", which has been compared to fan fiction. Although commonly not authorized by writers, no legal action is usually taken against fan fiction, since it is rarely published commercially and thus involves no profit. Colting, however, has published his book commercially, therefore interfering"
"Catcher in the Rye"", and how he took his self-assigned first name from its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. As the weeks go by, Justine and Holden start to bring out the best in each other. But when Holden makes a pass at her, she rejects him, leaving him dismayed. He becomes more and more besotted by her. Some time later, Holden does not show up to work but sends a letter to Justine, writing that if she does not meet him at 5pm that day behind the nearest Chuck E. Cheese, she will never see him again. After much consideration, Justine"