J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) · CatalogJ. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger; JD Salinger; J.D. Salinger; J D Salinger; JDSalinger; Jerome David SalingerJ. D. Salinger (1919-2010) · CatalogAmerican writer, author of The Catcher in the Rye and stories of the Glass family.Author
J. D. Salinger
1919-2010 · American writer, author of The Catcher in the Rye and stories of the Glass family
Short biography: J. D. Salinger in Great Lives
About J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) was born Jerome David Salinger in New York City and attended Valley Forge Military Academy before brief studies at several colleges. Drafted in 1942, he landed at Utah Beach on D-Day with the 4th Infantry Division and served through the campaign in northwest Europe, carrying early chapters of a novel about Holden Caulfield. His stories appeared in The New Yorker from 1946, and The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was followed by Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961) and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). He moved to Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1953, avoided publicity, published his last story in 1965 and died there in 2010.
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The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger
1951 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger, published in 1951 by Little, Brown. It is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-year-old who tells, from a place in California where he is resting and receiving care, what happened to him over a few days the previous December.