J. D. Salinger was born Jerome David Salinger in Manhattan, New York on January 1, 1919.
Salinger attended New York University, Ursinus College, and Columbia University in succession. While taking night classes at the latter, he met Whit Burnett, a professor who also edited Story magazine. Burnett told Salinger that his stories were skillful and accomplished, accepting The Young Folks, a vignette about several aimless youths, for publication in Story
Salinger started dating Oona O'Neill, daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill in the early 1940s. Their relationship ended when Oona began seeing Charlie Chaplin, whom she eventually married.
JD Salinger took a job as activities director on board a luxury Caribbean cruise liner, the MS Kungsholm in 1941. That same year, he wrote a short story for The New Yorker called Slight Rebellion Off Madison, but its publication was postponed due to the attack on Pearl Harbor and Salinger was drafted into the US Army and posted to Normandy.
During his service from 1942 to 1944, Salinger began working on a play featuring Slight Rebellion Off Madison's main character, a disaffected teenager named Holden Cauldfield, Salinger even kept pages on his person when marching into battle.
Traumatized by some very bloody battles on D-Day and in Luxembourg, Salinger suffered a nervous breakdown in Nuremburg in 1945 and was hospitalized for a spell in a mental hospital.
After recovering from his breakdown, Salinger had a short spell doing military service in the counter-intelligence division in Germany before returning to New York in 1946.
Salinger continued to write, contributing short stories to various outlets. Slight Rebellion Off Madison was finally printed later in 1946. He also continued working on his work about Holden Cauldfield – now as a novel. This would become his cult classic of teenage angst, The Catcher in the Rye.
In 1948, Salinger's critically acclaimed short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work.
Producer Darryl Zanuck purchased the rights to another of Salinger's short stories, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut. Released as My Foolish Heart in 1949, it earned actress Susan Hayward an Oscar nomination.
By 1950, Salinger had completed The Catcher in the Rye, Harcourt Brace agreed to publish, the work but the author broke away from the deal after they insisted on rewrites. The untouched book was eventually released by Little, Brown and Company on July 16, 1951. It became an immediate popular success.
The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently.
His best known post-Catcher In the Rye work were Salinger's stories of the Jewish Glass family, including Franny and Zooey published in 1961.
Salinger never published an original work after 1965 and was never interviewed after 1980.
The reclusive Salinger did not like publicity. He told his agent to burn any mail that fans sent him and refused to have his his photograph on the jacket of his books.
Salinger ate in the kitchens of local restaurants to avoid being bothered by other diners.
The founder of Norton Antivirus purchased, at an auction, love letters written by the reclusive Sailinger to American novelist and journalist Joyce Maynard. He returned the letters to the author out of respect for his privacy.
On January 27, 2010, Salinger died in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire of natural causes at age 91.
Catcher in the Rye isn't available in an ebook form because J.D. Salinger refused to allow adaptations to the book and even after his death, his agents continue to uphold his wishes.
Sources Mental Floss, Huffington Posr
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| October 11, 1950 Photographed by Lotte Jacobi. Wikipedia |
Salinger attended New York University, Ursinus College, and Columbia University in succession. While taking night classes at the latter, he met Whit Burnett, a professor who also edited Story magazine. Burnett told Salinger that his stories were skillful and accomplished, accepting The Young Folks, a vignette about several aimless youths, for publication in Story
Salinger started dating Oona O'Neill, daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill in the early 1940s. Their relationship ended when Oona began seeing Charlie Chaplin, whom she eventually married.
JD Salinger took a job as activities director on board a luxury Caribbean cruise liner, the MS Kungsholm in 1941. That same year, he wrote a short story for The New Yorker called Slight Rebellion Off Madison, but its publication was postponed due to the attack on Pearl Harbor and Salinger was drafted into the US Army and posted to Normandy.
During his service from 1942 to 1944, Salinger began working on a play featuring Slight Rebellion Off Madison's main character, a disaffected teenager named Holden Cauldfield, Salinger even kept pages on his person when marching into battle.
Traumatized by some very bloody battles on D-Day and in Luxembourg, Salinger suffered a nervous breakdown in Nuremburg in 1945 and was hospitalized for a spell in a mental hospital.
After recovering from his breakdown, Salinger had a short spell doing military service in the counter-intelligence division in Germany before returning to New York in 1946.
Salinger continued to write, contributing short stories to various outlets. Slight Rebellion Off Madison was finally printed later in 1946. He also continued working on his work about Holden Cauldfield – now as a novel. This would become his cult classic of teenage angst, The Catcher in the Rye.
In 1948, Salinger's critically acclaimed short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work.
Producer Darryl Zanuck purchased the rights to another of Salinger's short stories, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut. Released as My Foolish Heart in 1949, it earned actress Susan Hayward an Oscar nomination.
By 1950, Salinger had completed The Catcher in the Rye, Harcourt Brace agreed to publish, the work but the author broke away from the deal after they insisted on rewrites. The untouched book was eventually released by Little, Brown and Company on July 16, 1951. It became an immediate popular success.
The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently.
His best known post-Catcher In the Rye work were Salinger's stories of the Jewish Glass family, including Franny and Zooey published in 1961.
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| Salinger on the cover of Time (September 15, 1961) |
Salinger never published an original work after 1965 and was never interviewed after 1980.
The reclusive Salinger did not like publicity. He told his agent to burn any mail that fans sent him and refused to have his his photograph on the jacket of his books.
Salinger ate in the kitchens of local restaurants to avoid being bothered by other diners.
The founder of Norton Antivirus purchased, at an auction, love letters written by the reclusive Sailinger to American novelist and journalist Joyce Maynard. He returned the letters to the author out of respect for his privacy.
On January 27, 2010, Salinger died in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire of natural causes at age 91.
Catcher in the Rye isn't available in an ebook form because J.D. Salinger refused to allow adaptations to the book and even after his death, his agents continue to uphold his wishes.
Sources Mental Floss, Huffington Posr
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