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Within two weeks of its 1951 release, J.D. Salinger's novel rocketed to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Ever since, the book - which explores three days in the life of a troubled 16-year-old boy - has been a "favorite of censors since its publication," according to the American Library Association. In 1960, school administrators at a high school in Tulsa, Okla., fired an English teacher for assigning the book to an 11th-grade class. While the teacher later won his appeal, the book remained off the required reading list. Another community in Columbus, Ohio, deemed the book "antiwhite" and formed a delegation to have it banned from local schools. One library banned it for violating codes on "excess vulgar language, sexual scenes, things concerning moral issues, excessive violence and anything dealing with the occult." When asked about the bans, Salinger once said, "Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach."

The book introduced slang expressions like the term (as in, "Boy, it really screws up my sex life something awful"). Literary critics have both hailed and assailed the novel, which broke the mold with its focus on character development rather than plot. Holden Caulfield, the novel's protagonist, has since become a symbol of adolescent angst. In 1980, 25-year-old Mark David Chapman shot Beatles legend John Lennon in front of his Manhattan home and later gave the book to police as an explanation for why he did it.

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Within two weeks of its 1951 release, J.D. Salinger's novel rocketed to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Ever since, the book - which explores three days in the life of a troubled 16-year-old boy - has been a "favorite of censors since its publication," according to the American Library Association.

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Now it can be told ... JD Salinger poses for a portrait as he reads from his novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1952. Photograph: Getty Images

1. It screwed up, majorly

The novel is said to have popularised the term "screw up", as in "Boy, it really screws up my sex life something awful. My sex life stinks." Hurrah for disaffected teenagers across the globe.

2. It's an icon for teenage rebellion

Salinger spent a lot of time refusing requests to adapt the novel. Among those who have tried to get a film version made are Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Jerry Lewis longed to play Holden Caulfield, and John Cusack is on record mourning the fact that once he was past 21, he was too old to take the role. Were it ever available.

3. It withstood a fight

Salinger was working on a version of the book when he was fighting in the second world war. During the campaign from Normandy to Germany, he met Ernest Hemingway, with whom he went on to exchange letters.

4. It's a favourite with murderers

Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon, so identified with the Salinger's antihero that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. Robert John Bardo, another killer, was carrying a copy of the book the night he murdered actress Rebecca Schaeffer. You don't have to be a murderer to like it, though.

5. It might have been sacrificed for a career in meat

Salinger could have been a meat importer - his father was a successful meat and cheese merchant who sent his son to Austria to brush up on the trade before the second world war. Luckily, Salinger left after only a month, escaping both the meat trade and the Nazis.

6. Green Day love it

The American rock band Green Day are proud champions of Salinger's antihero; their 1994 song Basket Case is a nasally homage in nasally whines. They also named an earlier song Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? Presumably they couldn't find a rhyme for Salinger.

7. Charlie Chaplin stole Salinger's girlfriend

Salinger was dating Oona O'Neill, daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, until she started seeing the comedian. Holden Caulfield has a complicated relationship with women, too: "That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

8. Ruby Wax identifies with it

In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.

9. It was banned for subversion

In 1978, the book was banned in high schools in Issaquah, Washington for being part of "an overall communist plot".

10. Salinger wasn't a fan of its fan fiction

The writer successfully filed a lawsuit in 2009 against a Swedish man for publishing a book that depicted Holden Caulfield in his old age on the run from a nursing home.

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is available to purchase from the Guardian Bookshop.

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The Catcher in the Rye at 60: Ten things you should know

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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of JD Salinger's classic, we've tracked down some facts to remember if you don't want to sound like a phony

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13 Interesting Facts About Catcher In The Rye

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Charlotte Brontë was born in England to an Irish father and Cornish mother on April 21, 1816. And though much of her life was marked by tragedy, she wrote novels and poems that found great success in her lifetime and are still popular nearly 200 years later. But there's a lot more to Brontë than Jane Eyre.

1. BRONTË WAS JUST 5 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE LOST HER MOTHER.

Maria Branwell Brontë was 38 when she died in 1821 of ovarian cancer (or, it's been suggested, of a post-natal infection), leaving her husband, Patrick Brontë, and their six young children behind. In the years after Maria died, Patrick sent four of his daughters, including Charlotte, to a boarding school for the daughters of clergy members. Brontë later used her bad experiences at this school-it was a harsh, abusive environment-as inspiration for Lowood Institution in Jane Eyre. As an adult, Bronte mentioned her mother (who was also fond of writing) in a letter, saying: "I wish she had lived and that I had known her."

2. BRONTË HAD BEEN WRITING POETRY AND STORIES SINCE HER YOUTH.

Though one of her boarding school report cards described her abilities as "altogether clever for her age, but knows nothing systematically," Brontë was a voracious reader during her childhood and teen years, and she wrote stories and staged plays at home with her siblings. With her brother Branwell, especially, she wrote manuscripts, plays, and stories, drawing on literature, magazines, and the Bible for inspiration. For fun, they created magazines that contained everything a real magazine would have-from the essays, letters, and poems to the ads and notes from the editor.

3. SHE WORKED AS A TEACHER AND GOVERNESS BUT DISLIKED IT.

In her late teens and early twenties, Brontë worked on and off as a teacher and governess. In between writing, she taught at a schoolhouse but didn't like the long hours. She also didn't love working as a governess in a family home. Once, in a letter to a friend, she wrote, "I will only ask you to imagine the miseries of a reserved wretch like me, thrown at once into the midst of a large family ... having the charge given me of a set of pampered, spoilt, and turbulent children, whom I was expected constantly to amuse as well as instruct." She quickly realized she wasn't a good fit for these caretaking jobs, but she later used her early work experiences as inspiration for passages in Jane Eyre.

4. BRONTË DEALT WITH A LOT OF LITERARY REJECTION.

When she was 20 years old, Brontë sent the English Poet Laureate Robert Southey some of her best poems. He wrote back in 1837, telling her that she obviously had a good deal of talent and a gift with words but that she should give up writing. "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation. To those duties you have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for celebrity. You will not seek in imagination for excitement," Southey responded to her. The Professor, Brontë's first novel, was rejected nine times before it was finally published after her death.

5. SHE USED THE MALE PSEUDONYM CURRER BELL.

In 1846, Brontë paid to publish a book of poetry containing poems she and her sisters Emily and Anne had written. The three sisters used male pseudonyms-Charlotte was Currer Bell, Emily was Ellis Bell, and Anne was Acton Bell. (The book sold two copies.) Brontë also used the Currer Bell pseudonym when she published Jane Eyre-her publishers didn't know Bell was really a woman until 1848, a year after the book was published!

6. JANE EYRE WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS.

In 1847, British publishing firm Smith, Elder & Co published Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. From the start, the book was a success-one critic called it "the best novel of the season"-and people began to speculate about who Currer Bell was. But some reviewers were less impressed, criticizing it for being coarse in content, including one who called it "anti-Christian." Brontë was writing in the Victorian period, after all.

7. BRONTË WAS LUCKY TO AVOID TUBERCULOSIS ...

Tuberculosis prematurely killed at least four of Brontë's five siblings, starting with her two oldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth (who weren't even teenagers yet), in 1825. In 1848, Brontë's only brother, Branwell, died of chronic bronchitis, officially, though tuberculosis has also been a rumored cause, probably aggravated by alcohol and opium. Her sister Emily came down with a severe illness during Branwell's funeral and died of tuberculosis three months later. Then, five months later in May 1849, Charlotte's final surviving sibling, Anne, also died of tuberculosis after a lengthy battle.

8. ... BUT SHE DIED AT 38 YEARS OLD-WHILE PREGNANT.

In June 1854, Brontë married a clergyman named Arthur Bell Nicholls and got pregnant almost immediately. Her pregnancy was far from smooth sailing though-she had acute bouts of nausea and vomiting, leading to her becoming severely dehydrated and malnourished. She and her unborn child died on March 31, 1855. Although we don't know for sure what killed her, theories include hyperemesis gravidarum, based on her symptoms, or possibly typhus. Her father, Patrick Brontë, survived his wife and all six children.

9. ZEALOUS BRONTË FANS TRAVEL TO HER HOME IN ENGLAND.

Emily and Anne Brontë wrote famous books, too-Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, respectively. The Brontë sisters's writing has inspired devoted fans from around the world to visit their home in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. The Brontë Society's Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth has a collection of early manuscripts and letters, and the museum invites bookworms to see where the Brontë family lived and wrote, and walk the Yorkshire moors that inspired many of the scenes each sister depicted.

10. SHE HELPED MAKE THE NAME 'SHIRLEY' MORE POPULAR FOR GIRLS.

Thanks to Brontë, the name Shirley is now considered more of a girl's name than a boy's one. In 1849, Brontë's second novel, Shirley, about an independent heiress named Shirley Keeldar, was released. Before then, the name Shirley was unusual, but was most commonly used for boys. (In the novel, the title character was named as such because her parents had wanted a boy.) But after 1849, the name Shirley reportedly started to become popular for women. Decades later in the 1930s, child star Shirley Temple's fame catapulted the name into more popular use.

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