Readers' Advisory

Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

On July 16, 1951, J.D. Salinger published his only novel, Catcher in the Rye.  61 years later, Catcher in the Rye is still tops school reading lists.

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Farewell Nadine Gordimer

Nobel Prize Winning Author

1923-2014

Nadine Gordimer  was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apartheid, her later works reflect a move toward more radical political and literary formulations.  She won a Nobel Prize in 1991. (Biography in Context)

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Farewell Louis Zamperini

1917-2014

Olympic Runner, POW, World War II Veteran

Subject of the book, Unbroken

 

 

Louis Zamperini, an Olympic distance runner and World War II veteran who survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after his bomber crashed, then endured two years in Japanese prison camps, died on July 3, 2014. He was 97 years old.

Zamperini is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which is being made into a movie directed by Angelina Jolie and is scheduled to be released in 2014. (Source: BBC.com)