J.D. Salingerauthor profile |
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| born | January 01, 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Manhattan, New York, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| influences | Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Ring Lardner, Leo Tolstoy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. -Wikipedia |
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books by J.D. Salingercombine editionsavg rating: 3.98 | 109327 ratings | 37 distinct works
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quotes by J.D. Salinger
"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)
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
— J.D. Salinger
— J.D. Salinger
"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)