A "Catcher in the Rye" Picture Album

Click here for a larger, interactive version of "Walking in Holden's Footsteps," NYT 1/28/2010

The cover of an early edition illustrates one of Holden's happy moments.



Holden Caufield, the Snow Globe, $24.99.  No kidding.





This image is available to buy on t-shirts and hats, suggesting the extent to which young people still identify with Holden Caufield.



9/15/1961 "For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh in the '20s and '30s."