J.D. Salinger







J.D. Salinger

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born
January 01, 1919

gender
male

place of birth
Manhattan, New York, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Ring Lardner, Leo Tolstoy


about this author

Jerome David Salinger is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as for his reclusive nature. He has not published a new work since 1965 and has not been interviewed since 1980.
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avg rating: 3.91 | 228,711 ratings | 12,763 reviews | 49 distinct works | 303 fans
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 3.85 — 163,169 ratings — published 1945
107 editions
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Franny and Zooey Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.01 — 24,894 ratings — published 1961
38 editions
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Nine Stories Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.22 — 12,491 ratings — published 1953
31 editions
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carp... Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.12 — 6,393 ratings — published 1380
29 editions
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For Esme—With Love and Squal... For Esme—With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.22 — 980 ratings — published 1986
6 editions
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جنگل واژگون جنگل واژگون
by J.D. Salinger, بابک تبرایی (Translator) سحر ساعی (Translator)
avg rating 3.54 — 348 ratings — published 1955
4 editions
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Catcher in the Rye/Franny and... Catcher in the Rye/Franny and Zooey/Nine Stories/Raise High the Roof Beam
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.15 — 171 ratings — published 1997
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یادداشت‌های شخص... یادداشت‌های شخصی یک سرباز
by J.D. Salinger, ترجمه‌ی علی شیعی علی
avg rating 3.34 — 109 ratings — published 1386
2 editions
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هفته ای یه بار آد... هفته ای یه بار آدمو نمی کشه
by J.D. Salinger, امید نیک فرجام لیلا نصیری ها
avg rating 3.69 — 74 ratings — published 2008
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22 Stories 22 Stories
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.41 — 58 ratings — published 1998
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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
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"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
J.D. Salinger
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