The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger ...

It was found in Hinckley's hotel room after he was arrested, and in 1989 Robert John Bardo had a copy of it on him when he murdered the actress Rebecca Schaeffer. The next year, in John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation, the con man protagonist holds forth on ..... For all the books that have been called descendants of The Catcher in the Rye, to me the closest relative to Holden Caulfield is Patrick Bateman, the serial-killer protagonist of American Psycho (1991). ...