As students tackle their summer reading lists, many will have their first encounter with Holden Caulfield ... an irascible 76-year-old still spouting the same vitriol about "godamn phonies ...

“Old Marsalla,” Holden Caulfield tells us. “He damn near blew the roof off.” When we arrived home, my father dusted off his copy of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. It was the ...

“The Old Man and the Sea ... “Students buy into it because [protagonist] Holden Caulfield is irreverent, he’s flip, he’s funny, he doesn’t like authority figures.

Within the next two or three years, though, I was on a forced march through a couple of schools similar to Pencey Prep, from which J.D. Salinger's 16-year-old protagonist Holden Caulfield is ...

It's the coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Caulfield, who has flunked out of his prep school and is disillusioned with the world. 'Afraid Of Growing Up' "The problem with Holden is that to him ...

Holden Caulfield is exactly one year older than I ... Last year I was tutoring a 13-year-old boy who struggles with psychological angst. He’s a bright kid who likes the concrete world of math ...

Holden Caulfield may have been less a casualty of this sociocultural storm than good old-fashioned adolescent frustration. Still, he spoke early for those who just wanted to break free and go ...

Fifty years ago, just before winter break, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield got kicked out of Pencey Prepatory School because he was flunking every class but English. It was his fourth expulsion.

Precocious and a natural ham, this Holden isn’t fazed by growing up in New York City or being named after J.D. Salinger‘s Holden Caulfield from “Catcher in the Rye”. An 8-year old at a ...

It's the coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Caulfield, who has flunked out of his prep school and is disillusioned with the world. 'Afraid Of Growing Up' "The problem with Holden is that to him ...