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PositionLiterature - J.D. Salinger and Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania - Brief article

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Holden Caulfield, the hero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, may be the most notorious 17-year-old in American literature. For years, Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania-which Salinger attended for one semester, in the fall of 193B--has tried to cash in on that connection, despite resistance from the very private author. (Salinger lived in the woods of New Hampshire from the 1960s until his death in 2010.) In 2006, when Ursinus announced a $30,000-a-year "J.D. Salinger Scholarship" in creative writing for an incoming freshman, plus a year of free lodging in...

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