By Erin L. Cox On Wednesday, reclusive American writer J.D. Salinger died.  Author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, Salinger had spent the last 50 years in seclusion. Famed New Yorker writer Lillian Ross had a close personal friendship with Salinger over the years and wrote a powerful piece about the life and death of the …