News Aricle #2

The famous writer J. D. Salinger is dead

Killed by a drunk driver in southern France, police are still searching for well-known alcoholic.

By Eric Å IB07a

The famous writer J. D. Salinger, 89, is dead. He was killed in car accident in Provence, southern France, yesterday morning. He sat on a café eating breakfast, when suddenly a car came in high speed and hit him where he was sitting, and threw him across the street. Several eyewitnesses say that the driver escaped in his red, rusty king-cab, and a massive police operation is organized to catch the perpetrator, who is believed to be a by the police well-known alcoholic.

The death of Salinger has resulted in worldwide protests, only in New York City, approximate 10.000 persons has been on the streets, protesting against the drunken drivers that every day kills a lot of people, and the police inability to stop it. In many cities worldwide, voices are raised demanding a Nobel Prize for Salinger.

Salinger became worldwide famous when he in 1951 wrote The Catcher in the Rye, the story about 16 year old Holden Caulfield, who gets expelled from his school “Pencey Prep”. Then, he goes to New York for a few days, were he continues his struggle against materialism and the phony adults.

On the autumn of his life, Salinger lived in southern Germany, just outside München, were he was engaged with gardening, in which he was interested. Every spring, he went on a bus trip to Holland to see tulips. One of his other major interests was going to the horse-racing. Every Sunday he went to the horse-racing track to play. He seldom won anything, but as he used to say:”It’s not to win money that is the point with going to the horse track, but to see your friends loose all of theirs”.