If you've taken high school English, you've probably read this writer's hit. Name that author of The Catcher in the Rye.

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." When you read The Catcher in the Rye, you might wish you were J.D. Salinger's friend. Salinger captured the teenage angst and melancholy "what is this all for?" of youth in his tale of Holden's wanderings through the streets of New York City. The feeling must have hit home with many, as the reclusive author landed himself exactly where he didn't want to be: in the spotlight.

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