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J. D. Salinger

Also known as Jerome David Salinger, Jerome Salinger

American author (1919–2010)

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J. D. Salinger was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which became one of the most widely read and discussed books in American literature. His work is considered important because of its influential portrayal of teenage alienation and its distinctive narrative voice, though his later withdrawal from public life and publishing added to his cultural mystique.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1 January 1919
Died: 27 January 2010
Works: 41

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The Catcher in the Rye
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The catcher in the rye; Rise high the roof beam, carpenters; Seymour; Franny and Zooey, and Nine stories
El vigilant en el camp de sègol LECTURA PLUS
The Catcher in the Rye SparkNotes Literature Guide

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1919-01-01
Active to: 2010-01-27

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Listeners: 1,470
Total plays: 6,752

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Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919 - died January 27, 2010) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as for his reclusive nature. He has not published a new work since 1965. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger began writing short stories while 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 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/J.+D.+Salinger">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
“I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in The Catcher in the Rye. Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.”
“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.”
“There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.”
“Outside the building, she started to walk west to Lexington to catch the bus. Between Third and Lexington, she reached into her coat pocket for her purse and found the sandwich half. She took it out and started to bring her arm down, to drop the sandwich into the street, but instead she put it back into her pocket. A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.”

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Commons category: Jerome David Salinger
date of birth: 1919-01-01
date of death: 2010-01-27
name in native language: Jerome David Salinger
start of work period: 1940-00-00
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to J. D. Salinger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Jerome David Salinger (/ˈsælɪndʒər/ 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. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work.

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was an immediate popular success; Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial, and its success led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing less frequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953); Franny and Zooey (1961), a volume containing a novella and a short story; and a volume containing two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). Salinger's last published work, the novella Hapworth 16, 1924, appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.