J.D. Salinger
Born: 1 January 1919
Died: 27 January 2010
Birthplace: New York, New York
The Facts:
Jerome David Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye, the
classic 20th-century novel of disaffected youth. Salinger started publishing
short stories in the 1940s, in magazines like the Saturday Evening
Post,Colliers and, especially, the New Yorker. The Catcher
In the Rye was published in 1951, became a bestseller and remains a
favorite of high school and college students. Always a private man, Salinger became increasingly
reclusive throughout the 1950s and eventually stopped making public appearances or
statements of any kind. He retreated to his remote home in Cornish, New
Hampshire, refused requests for interviews, and did not publish after 1965 --
though he reportedly continued to write into the 21st century. He died of
natural causes in 2010.
The Gossip:
J.D. Salinger served in the U.S. Army in World War II and
participated in the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944... He married Claire Douglas,
a student at Radcliffe, in 1955. They had two children, Margaret Ann (b. 1955)
and Matthew (b. 1960), and were divorced in 1965... Salinger had a love affair
with author Joyce Maynard in the early 1970s, which Maynard described in her
1998 memoir At Home In the World. She auctioned her personal letters from
Salinger for nearly $160,000 in 1999... Salinger attended Valley Forge Military
Academy from 1934-36; it is generally considered to be the model for the school
Pencey Prep in The Catcher In the Rye.
The Legacy:
J.D. Salinger, while often shirked by literary academics, is considered by many to be
one of America's seminal writers. Despite receiving criticism for almost exclusively
writing white, wealthy characters embroiled in the drama of very privileged lifestyles, he
has managed to appeal to readers from all walks of life, particularly young adults. Following
in the steps of predecessors such as Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, Salinger
was able to take the dramatic understatement and verbal sparseness of the Lost Generation
and brandish it with a new, youthful sense of hope, contentment, and gratitude.
Works Cited: http://www.biography.com/people/jd-salinger-9470070?page=2
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Died: 27 January 2010
Birthplace: New York, New York
The Facts:
Jerome David Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye, the
classic 20th-century novel of disaffected youth. Salinger started publishing
short stories in the 1940s, in magazines like the Saturday Evening
Post,Colliers and, especially, the New Yorker. The Catcher
In the Rye was published in 1951, became a bestseller and remains a
favorite of high school and college students. Always a private man, Salinger became increasingly
reclusive throughout the 1950s and eventually stopped making public appearances or
statements of any kind. He retreated to his remote home in Cornish, New
Hampshire, refused requests for interviews, and did not publish after 1965 --
though he reportedly continued to write into the 21st century. He died of
natural causes in 2010.
The Gossip:
J.D. Salinger served in the U.S. Army in World War II and
participated in the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944... He married Claire Douglas,
a student at Radcliffe, in 1955. They had two children, Margaret Ann (b. 1955)
and Matthew (b. 1960), and were divorced in 1965... Salinger had a love affair
with author Joyce Maynard in the early 1970s, which Maynard described in her
1998 memoir At Home In the World. She auctioned her personal letters from
Salinger for nearly $160,000 in 1999... Salinger attended Valley Forge Military
Academy from 1934-36; it is generally considered to be the model for the school
Pencey Prep in The Catcher In the Rye.
The Legacy:
J.D. Salinger, while often shirked by literary academics, is considered by many to be
one of America's seminal writers. Despite receiving criticism for almost exclusively
writing white, wealthy characters embroiled in the drama of very privileged lifestyles, he
has managed to appeal to readers from all walks of life, particularly young adults. Following
in the steps of predecessors such as Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, Salinger
was able to take the dramatic understatement and verbal sparseness of the Lost Generation
and brandish it with a new, youthful sense of hope, contentment, and gratitude.
Works Cited: http://www.biography.com/people/jd-salinger-9470070?page=2
Additional Info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqc0Gn5Yb90
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