RORY: Actually, I was thinking of pulling kind of a hermit thing tonight.
DEAN: Why?
RORY: I don’t know. J.D. Salinger seems to dig it.
Jerome David “J.D.” Salinger (1919-2010), author of Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, both previously discussed. As his literary notability grew, Salinger gradually withdrew from public life.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 