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LESSON 21 
LIFE AND CREATURE OF K.VONNEGUT, SELENGER, IRVING SHOW. 
Plan 
1.
Jerome David "J. D." Salinger was an American author, best known for his 1951 
novel 
The Catcher in the Rye
, as well as his reclusive nature.
2.
The success of 
The Catcher in the Rye
Jerome David "J. D." Salinger
January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best 
known for his 1951 novel 
The Catcher in the Rye
, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original 
published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980. 
Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and 
published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. Salinger published his 
first stories in 
Story
magazine which was started by Whit Burnett.
[2]
In 1948 he published the 
critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in 
The New Yorker
magazine, which 
became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel 
The Catcher in 
the Rye
, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence 
in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.
[3]
The 
novel remains widely read and controversial,
[4]
 selling around 250,000 copies a year. 
The success of 
The Catcher in the Rye
led to public attention and scrutiny: Salinger became 
reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed 
Catcher
with a short story collection, 
Nine Stories
 (1953), a volume containing a novella and a short story, 
Franny and Zooey
 (1961), and 
a volume containing 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 and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people 
close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small 
publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but amid 
the ensuing publicity, the release was indefinitely delayed.
[5]
 He made headlines around the globe in 
June 2009, after filing a lawsuit against another writer for copyright infringement resulting from 
that writer's use of one of Salinger's characters from 
The Catcher in the Rye
.
[6]
Salinger died of 
natural causes on January 27, 2010, at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.  
Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, on New Year's Day, 1919. His 
mother, Marie (née Jillich), was born in Atlantic, Iowa, of Scottish, German and Irish 
descent.
[3][9][10]
 His paternal grandfather, Simon, born in Lithuania, was at one time the rabbi for the 
Adath Jeshurun congregation in Louisville, Kentucky.
[11]
His father, Sol Salinger, sold kosher 
cheese.
[12]
Salinger's mother changed her name to Miriam and passed as Jewish. Salinger did not 
learn his mother was not Jewish until just after his bar mitzvah.
[13]
His only sibling was his older 
sister Doris (1911–2001).
[14]
 
The young Salinger attended public schools on the West Side of Manhattan, then in 1932, 
the family moved to Park Avenue and Salinger was enrolled at the McBurney School, a nearby 
private school. Being Jewish, Salinger had trouble fitting in at his new school environment and took 
measures to conform, such as calling himself Jerry. His family called him Sonny.
[16]
 At McBurney, 
he managed of the fencing team, wrote for the school newspaper, and appeared in plays. He 
"showed an innate talent for drama", though his father opposed the idea of J.D. becoming an 
actor.
[17]
 Salinger was not a good student, had failing grades, and therefore was kicked out. 

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Salinger died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire on January 27, 2010. He 
was 91. Salinger's literary representative commented to 
The New York Times
 that the writer had 
broken his hip in May 2009, but that "his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline 
after the new year." The representative believed that Salinger's death was not a painful one