John Steinbeck in 1939 Born

Death[edit]

Created for the cover of Time magazine, Robert Vickrey's 1961 portrait of Salinger was placed on view in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., after Salinger's death.^[135]

Salinger died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire on January 27, 2010. He was 91.^[136] His literary representative told The New York Times that Salinger had broken his hip in May 2009, but that "his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year."^[137] The representative believed that Salinger's death had not been painful.^[137] His third wife and widow, Colleen O'Neill Zakrzeski Salinger, and Salinger's son Matt became the executors of his estate.^[137]