J. D. Salinger (1919–2010)

Author of The Catcher in the Rye

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About the Author

J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919. He attended Manhattan public schools, Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, and three colleges, but received no degrees. He was from an upper class Jewish family and they lived on the upper west side of Manhattan on Park Avenue. show more Salinger joined the U. S. Army in 1942 and fought in the D-Day invasion at Normandy as well as the Battle of the Bulge, but suffered a nervous breakdown due to all he had seen and experienced in the war and checked himself into an Army hospital in Germany in 1945. In December 1945, his short story I'm Crazy was published in Collier's. In 1947, his short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish was published in The New Yorker. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote more than 30 short stories and a handful of novellas, which were published in magazines and later collected in works such as Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951, was his only novel. His last published story, Hapworth 16, 1924, appeared in 1965. He spent the remainder of his years in seclusion and silence in a home in Cornish, New Hampshire. He died of natural causes on January 27, 2010 at the age of 91. Salinger always wanted to write the great American novel; when he succeeded in this with Catcher in the Rye, he was unprepared for the onslaught on privacy issues that this popularity brought on. He never wanted to be in the spotlight and retreated from all contacts he had in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger

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Works by J. D. Salinger

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The Catcher in the Rye (1951) 71,528 copies, 1,105 reviews

Franny and Zooey (1955) 15,184 copies, 180 reviews

Nine Stories (1953) — Author — 12,010 copies, 118 reviews

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1955) 6,316 copies, 63 reviews

Three Early Stories (2014) 108 copies, 3 reviews

For Esmé - With Love and Squalor (1950) 104 copies, 1 review

A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948) 92 copies, 2 reviews

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) 71 copies, 1 review

Hapworth 16, 1924 (1965) 63 copies, 2 reviews

The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger (1940) 55 copies, 2 reviews

The Catcher in the Rye / Nine Stories / Franny and Zooey / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters / Seymour–An… (2010) 43 copies

J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2016) 30 copies

The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey / Nine Stories / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1973) 26 copies

Nine Stories / Franny and Zooey / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1982) 14 copies

The Heart of a Broken Story (1941) 12 copies, 4 reviews

The Young Folks (Story, vol. 16 no. 82, pp. 27-30) 11 copies

The Laughing Man (1949) 9 copies

Three Stories 9 copies, 1 review

22 Stories (2017) 9 copies

Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut (1948) 8 copies

A Girl I Knew (1948) 8 copies

I'm Crazy 7 copies

Both Parties Concerned (1944) 7 copies

The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, Volume 1 (1965) 7 copies

The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls 6 copies, 1 review

Go See Eddie (1978) 6 copies

Just Before the War with the Eskimos (1948) 6 copies

A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All 6 copies

This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise 6 copies

The Hang of It 5 copies

The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, Volume 2 (1965) 5 copies

Seymour: An Introduction (1959) 5 copies

The Varioni Brothers 5 copies

A Boy in France 5 copies, 1 review

Teddy (1953) 5 copies

Slight Rebellion off Madison 5 copies

Soft-Boiled Sergeant 5 copies

Last Day of the Last Furlough 5 copies

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes (1951) 5 copies

Down at the Dinghy (1949) 5 copies

De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952) 4 copies

Elaine 4 copies

The Long Debut of Lois Taggett 4 copies

The Stranger 4 copies

Franny (1955) 3 copies

Once a Week Won't Kill You 3 copies

Nad propastu vo rzhi ; Povesti ; Rasskazy (1999) 3 copies

Blue Melody 3 copies

Sobranie sochinenii (2008) 2 copies

Девять рассказов (Pocket book) (2016) 2 copies

Pugeu la viga mestra, fusters. 2 copies

Zooey (1957) 2 copies

J.D. Salinger and the Critics (1964) 2 copies

The Catcher in the Rye 2 copies

Kurz vor dem Krieg gegen die Eskimos und andere Kurzgeschichten (1961) — Author — 2 copies

Paula 2 copies, 1 review

Personal Notes on an Infantryman 2 copies

The Inverted Forest 2 copies

Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien, Bd.328, Der Fänger im Roggen (2002) 2 copies

Birthday Boy 2 copies

Salinger: Nine Stories: a Critical Commentary (1966) 1 copy

ROJE NE THEKERISHTEN BUZE GREMINES 1 copy

Zabhegyezö 1 copy

Visoko podignite krovnu gredu, tesari / Simor 1 copy

サリンジャー選集(4) 九つの物語大工たちよ、屋根の梁を高く上げよ (2000) 1 copy

Za Esme 1 copy

Kilenc történet (2004) 1 copy

1966 1 copy

Seymour : sissejuhatus ; Puusepad, tõstke kõrgele sarikad! (2003) 1 copy

Buszujżcy w zbożu (2016) 1 copy

The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger First Penguin Edition 1958 (1248) 1 copy

Ni noveller 1 copy

J. D. Salinger 4 Books Collection Set (For Esme with Love and Squalor, Raise High the Roof Beam, The Catcher in the… (2024) 1 copy

אני, ניו-יורק וכל השאר 1 copy

Dokuz Öykü 1 copy

Malcolm X: An Introduction 1 copy

Four Books by J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour,… 1 copy

Shazaam! 1 copy

Till Esmé - kärleksfullt och solkigt 1 copy

The catcher in the rye Study guide to modern novels (1985) 1 copy

[No title] 1 copy

Sacrilege (2013) 1 copy

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Associated Works

50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contributor — 1,314 copies, 8 reviews

Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contributor — 711 copies, 3 reviews

Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Contributor — 366 copies

Fiction Writer's Handbook (1975) — Introduction, some editions — 204 copies, 1 review

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 152 copies, 1 review

An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contributor — 145 copies, 1 review

Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1960) — Contributor — 80 copies, 2 reviews

55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Contributor — 62 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1942-1945 (1946) — Contributor — 3 copies

Five modern American short stories (1985) 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Salinger, J.D.
Legal name: Salinger, Jerome David
Birthdate: 1919-01-01
Date of death: 2010-01-27
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
Places of residence: Vienna, Austria
Windsor, Vermont, USA
Education: McBurney School
Valley Forge Military Academy
New York University
Ursinus College
Columbia University
Occupations: novelist
short-story writer
counterintelligence officer (WWII)
soldier (WWII)
Relationships: Salinger, Margaret (daughter)
Douglas, Claire (1) (wife|divorced)
Maynard, Joyce (domestic partner)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend)
Maxwell, William (friend)
Ross, Lillian (friend) (show all 12)
Shawn, William (friend)
Burnett, Whit (teacher)
Hand, Learned (friend)
Hadley, Leila (friend)
Hotchner, A. E. (friend)
Salinger, Matt (son)
Organizations: US Army (U.S. 12th Infantry Regiment ∙ WWII)
Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)
The New Yorker
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York
Awards and honors: Five Battle Stars
Presidential Unit Citation for Valor
Short biography: Jerome David Salinger was an American writer best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which became home to much of his later work. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 and became an immediate popular success. Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial.

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Reviews

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

I really did not enjoy most of this book. I'm not kidding. But the ending was pretty good ngl

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Tgoldhush | 1,104 other reviews | Dec 26, 2024 |

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

This book was repetitive to the EXTREME. Words like, and all, goddamit, horse around, crumby etc get driven into the ground and just make you mad. The character is completely annoying in his repetitiveness, selfishness, un-founded misery etc. Just a horrible person to have to listen to for the entire book.

I don't even know what the point of this book is. All of his opinions just got on my nerves - in the words of the Schwarzenegger - STOP WHINING!

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spiritedstardust | 1,104 other reviews | Dec 24, 2024 |

Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

Salingers range is pronounced and wide. Stories with subtle endings and weight. I especially thought certain stories like the army soldier and the painting teacher also the last one which I found at the peak of Nine stories. Must read

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Sri-Hari-Palacio-MEd | 117 other reviews | Dec 21, 2024 |

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

J.D Salinger cuts the bone and whets the knife-blade. His tactful biting conversational dialogue of intrigue captures the epitome of callous childhood and adolescence. To be passing back and worth between quips and frills like so many region-less mind matter. Our character is the regret of living not like our urge. The urges to ‘kill people’ but with the silver tongue of infancy. Tough exterior but a rage of light- come sit and observe the delinquency of heart peoples.

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