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


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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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The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 3.83 — 211,865 ratings — published 1945
110 editions
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Franny and Zooey Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.00 — 27,612 ratings — published 1961
38 editions
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Nine Stories Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.21 — 13,953 ratings — published 1953
33 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 — 7,009 ratings — published 1380
30 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 4.23 — 1,102 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 — 400 ratings — published 1955
5 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 4.16 — 200 ratings — published 1997
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یادداشت‌های شخص... یادداشت‌های شخصی یک سرباز
by J.D. Salinger, علی شیعه‌علی (Translator)
avg rating 3.37 — 126 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 (Translator), لیلا نصیری ها (Translator)
avg rating 3.69 — 91 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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22 Stories 22 Stories
by J.D. Salinger
avg rating 4.42 — 64 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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"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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"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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