This Day In History: The book, The Catcher in the Rye, was published on this day in 1951. This book is thought to be behind the murders of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, JFK, Lennon, and a failed assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Other books that have led to crimes are A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Asimov's Foundation, The Collector by John Fowles, Rage by Stephen King, The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, The Turner Diaries, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad and Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care has been linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). A 1774 German novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe led to a string of suicides.
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