 Afterward , Salinger struggled with unwanted attention , including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him : Joyce Maynard , an ex @-@ lover ; and Margaret Salinger , his daughter . In 1996 , a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish " Hapworth 16 , 1924 " in book form , but amid the ensuing publicity the release was indefinitely delayed . He made headlines around the globe in June 2009 when he filed a lawsuit against another writer for copyright infringement resulting from that writer 's use of one of the characters from The Catcher in the Rye . Salinger died of natural causes on January 27 , 2010 , at his home in Cornish , New Hampshire . In November 2013 , three unpublished stories by Salinger were briefly posted online . One of the stories , " The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls " , is said to be a prequel to The Catcher in the Rye . 
