Jerome David Salinger is the full name, he was born in New York City on January 1, 1919 to Solomon and Miriam Jillich Salinger, he had an older sister born in Chicago. In his much younger years he attended the McBurney School, a private high school where he was captain of the fencing team, similar to his character Holden Caulfield who was manager of the fencing team. Later he enrolls in Valley Forge Military Academy, located in Wayne, Pennsylvania much like Pency prep and graduates in 1936. Right after he enrolls in NYU, but due to poor grades he quits before his second year.
In 1942, the dreading war between Japan and Germany begins and Salinger is drafted into the United States Army and spends up to 4 years fighting in and out. He took part on the invasion of Germany and witnessed the harsh conditions of the prisoners of the Dachau Concentration Camp. After the war ends, he spends 6 more months in the army, in which during those months he is hospitalized in Nuremberg, Germany due to stress.
To this day not much is known about J.D Salinger, since he refuses to be out in the public and also refuses interviews, but he is still widely known due to The catcher in the rye, his most famous novel published in 1951, aside from that, all of his other pieces are short stories, such as nine stories which is a collection serious of various stories all previously published in magazines, and other stories like The Young Folks and Hepworth, 16, 1924. There are also records suspecting that Salinger has many other stories that haven't been published and Salinger still at 90 has no intentions of publishing them just yet.
It is questionable that Salinger continues the story of Holden Caulfield in his other stories, many similar to the theme of catcher in the rye and some telling the story of other members of the Caulfield family. The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, Slight Rebellion off Madison, I'm Crazy, The Last and Best of the Peter Pans, This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise, Last Day of the Last Furlough, A Boy in France, and The Stranger are all similar to catcher in the rye or a continuing story of Holden Caulfield.
It seems that Salinger enjoys this method of writing, since he's also wrote about The Glass family numerous times. The Glass Family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in many of his stories such as, Teddy, Hapworth 16, 1924,Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, Seymour: An Introduction, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Franny, Zooey, Down at the Dinghy, and Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut.
Recently this year Salinger filed a suit against the writer of a soon to be book that is claimed to be a similar sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. According to an interview in The Telegraph, a widely known newspaper in the U.K, stated that the author John David California was working on a novel, called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye It would be about a 76 year old character called Mr. C, who wanders the streets of New York after he escapes his nursing home, Very much similar to the catcher in the rye, when Holden escapes Pency prep school and takes us through his experience in new York city, it isn't known yet what the outcome will be or if “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” will be allowed to be published.
To this day not much is known about J.D Salinger, since he refuses to be out in the public and also refuses interviews, but he is still widely known due to The catcher in the rye, his most famous novel published in 1951, aside from that, all of his other pieces are short stories, such as nine stories which is a collection serious of various stories all previously published in magazines, and other stories like The Young Folks and Hepworth, 16, 1924. There are also records suspecting that Salinger has many other stories that haven't been published and Salinger still at 90 has no intentions of publishing them just yet.
It is questionable that Salinger continues the story of Holden Caulfield in his other stories, many similar to the theme of catcher in the rye and some telling the story of other members of the Caulfield family. The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, Slight Rebellion off Madison, I'm Crazy, The Last and Best of the Peter Pans, This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise, Last Day of the Last Furlough, A Boy in France, and The Stranger are all similar to catcher in the rye or a continuing story of Holden Caulfield.
It seems that Salinger enjoys this method of writing, since he's also wrote about The Glass family numerous times. The Glass Family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in many of his stories such as, Teddy, Hapworth 16, 1924,Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, Seymour: An Introduction, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Franny, Zooey, Down at the Dinghy, and Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut.
Recently this year Salinger filed a suit against the writer of a soon to be book that is claimed to be a similar sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. According to an interview in The Telegraph, a widely known newspaper in the U.K, stated that the author John David California was working on a novel, called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye It would be about a 76 year old character called Mr. C, who wanders the streets of New York after he escapes his nursing home, Very much similar to the catcher in the rye, when Holden escapes Pency prep school and takes us through his experience in new York city, it isn't known yet what the outcome will be or if “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” will be allowed to be published.
Reflection-
After reading The catcher in the rye, i thought i would be interesting to find out more about J.D Salinger and his life and what led to this book, and from it i learned many other things, aside from that, like his experience in the army, and some similarities he had with Holden.
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