Early Life
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York. Salinger, was the only boy to Sol and Miriam Salinger with two other sisters. Salinger wasn't much of an aspiring student, he flunked out of one school and was shipped off to military school, when he graduated military school he attend NY University for a year before traveling to Europe and exploring languages. Afterwards, he attend Columbia University and met a professor who encouraged him to explore his writing skills. During the takeoff of his writing World War ll occurred, and put a pause on his writing. During his military service, he did experience trauma and met a woman Sylvia, a German and was married a short 8 months before divorcing. He remarried to a woman named Claire Douglas and had two children with her, Margaret and Matthew, but divorced in 1966. In 1951, his novel that he started during war time was published, Catcher in the Rye. This novel escalated his popularity and transformed him into one of the most recognized authors in the 20th century. Two years after Salinger published Catcher in the Rye, he became reclusive and only published two more books afterwards. Though he did have a relationship with a much younger woman, he broke of the relationship and remarried Colleen O'Neill, they stayed together until his death. When Salinger died in 2010, his last piece "Hapsworth", was shown in the NY Times.
Notable works
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Nine Stories (1953)
- "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948)
- "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948)
- "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (1948)
- "The Laughing Man" (1949)
- "Down at the Dinghy" (1949)
- "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor" (1950)
- "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (1951)
- "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" (1952)
- "Teddy" (1953)
- Franny and Zooey (1961)
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)"
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