(1919 - 2009) Reclusive American author who established his reputation on the basis of a single novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), whose principal character, Holden Caulfield, epitomized the growing pains of a generation of high school and college students. Very rare S.P., 8.5 x 11 in. b/w, an image of the author seated at a table with a book and an ashtray before him, hurriedly signed in the white bottom margin. Ex: Tom and Cordelia Platt, ca. 1980.