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Jerome David Salinger (/ ˈ s æ l ɪ n dʒ ər / SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II.
May 29, 2024 · J.D. Salinger, American writer whose novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-World War II generation of college students. He also wrote Nine Stories (1953) and Franny and Zooey (1961), and he was well-known for his extremely reclusive life.
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Salinger witnessed the horrors of World War II, but rather than writing a combat novel, Salinger, according to Shields and Salerno, "took the trauma of war and embedded it within what looked to the naked eye like a coming-of-age novel."
- J. D. Salinger
- 1951
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Apr 2, 2014 · With his landmark novel 'Catcher in the Rye,' J.D. Salinger was an influential 20th-century American writer.
Sep 5, 2013 · The subject of the book and documentary is not Salinger the writer but Salinger the star: exactly the identity he spent the last fifty years of his life trying to shed.
Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine.
Jan 23, 2020 · Learn about the life and works of J. D. Salinger, the author of the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye and numerous short stories. Explore his early years, wartime experiences, marriages, and reclusive lifestyle.
