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J.D. Salinger

Born

in Manhattan, New York, The United States

January 01, 1919

Died

January 27, 2010

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flauber ...more

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.

People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.

People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent readers. Widely read and controversial, sells a quarter-million copies a year.

The success led to public attention and scrutiny: reclusive, he published new work less frequently. He followed with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.

Afterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton. In the late 1990s, Joyce Maynard, a close ex-lover, and Margaret Salinger, his daughter, wrote and released his memoirs. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but the ensuing publicity indefinitely delayed the release.

Another writer used one of his characters, resulting in copyright infringement; he filed a lawsuit against this writer and afterward made headlines around the globe in June 2009. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.
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J.D. Salinger’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 4,364,651 ratings · 127,304 reviews · 147 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,883,176 ratings — published 1951 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 239,540 ratings — published 1957 — 274 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 154,607 ratings — published 1953 — 322 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction 4.10 avg rating — 53,596 ratings — published 1955 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Day for Bananafish 4.26 avg rating — 13,126 ratings — published 1948 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Early Stories 3.65 avg rating — 3,562 ratings — published 1940 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Над пропастью во ржи by J.D. Salinger, Джером Д. Сэлинджер, Рита Райт-Ковалева (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 2,691 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جنگل واژگون by J.D. Salinger, بابک تبرایی (Translator), سحر ساعی (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 2,117 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hapworth 16, 1924 3.64 avg rating — 1,412 ratings — published 1965 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Catcher in the Rye/Franny and Zooey/Nine Stories/Raise High the Roof Beam 4.26 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by J.D. Salinger (?)

“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

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Polls

March 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages, 1962

25 votes, 12.0%

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951

18 votes, 8.7%

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 331 pages, 1911

18 votes, 8.7%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 277 pages, 1953

17 votes, 8.2%

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890

17 votes, 8.2%

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 146 pages, 1962

15 votes, 7.2%

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages, 1899

14 votes, 6.7%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages. 1935

14 votes, 6.7%

1984 by George Orwell, 268 pages, 1949

13 votes, 6.3%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages, 1961

12 votes, 5.8%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1960

11 votes, 5.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

10 votes, 4.8%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages, 1844

7 votes, 3.4%

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov, 212 pages, 1934

7 votes, 3.4%

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 240 pages, 1984

5 votes, 2.4%

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages, 1937

5 votes, 2.4%

208 total votes

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