J. D. Salinger

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City in 1919, the son of a cheese importer. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania and took writing classes at Columbia University, and he began publishing short stories in magazines. Drafted into the army in 1942, he landed at Utah Beach on D-Day in 1944 and fought through the campaigns in France and Germany, reportedly carrying chapters of his novel with him. After the war his stories appeared in The New Yorker. The Catcher in the Rye (1951), narrated by sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield as he wanders New York after being expelled from his prep school, became one of the most widely read American novels, admired for its voice and often controversial in schools. Later books included Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey, about the Glass family. Disliking publicity, Salinger moved to Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1953 and lived there quietly for the rest of his life. He published his last story in 1965 and rarely gave interviews. He died in Cornish in 2010.

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Faith: Born to a father of Jewish descent; he practiced Zen Buddhism and later followed Advaita Vedanta Hinduism. Source: Wikipedia