J. D. Salinger

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Image:Jd salinger.jpg Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age novel that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. A major theme in Salinger's work is the agile and powerful mind of disturbed young men, and the redemptive capacity of children in the lives of such men.

Salinger is also known for his reclusive nature. He rarely leaves his home in Cornish, New Hampshire; has not given an interview since 1974; and has neither made a public appearance nor published new work since 1965. In 1988, he took legal action to keep a biographer, Ian Hamilton, from quoting his letters, and succeeded. (Hamilton's book ended up incorporating the story of the lawsuit.) Several subsequent memoirs, notably by Salinger's daughter Margaret and his former lover Joyce Maynard, paint a picture of a highly perceptive, eccentric, and intense man with whom it was often difficult to live. Not much is known about his personal life, though rumor has it that he is a practicing Buddhist, and that he remarried sometime in the 1990s. He is also said to have lost much of his hearing with advancing age.

In the late 1990s, there was a flurry of excitement when a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to bring out the first book version of his final published story, "Hapworth 16, 1924." A great deal of publicity ensued, and Salinger delayed publication, then withdrew from the arrangement.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Published and collected 2 Published and uncollected 2.1 Unpublished and uncollected 2.1.1 At Princeton Library 3 External links

Works

The top level of the outline provides the dates the books were published, and the lower level provides the dates the individual stories were originally published. Uncollected stories are provided at the bottom.

Many of his stories involved the Glass Family or Holden Caulfield. These are indicated below.

Published and collected

• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) Holden Caulfield
• Nine Stories (1953)
  • A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948) Glass Family - (Seymour's suicide)
  • Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut (1948) Glass Family - (Explains Walt's death)
  • Just Before the War with the Eskimos (1948)
  • The Laughing Man (1949)
  • Down at the Dinghy (1949) Glass Family (Boo Boo Glass)
  • For Esmé with Love and Squalor (1950)
  • Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes (1951)
  • De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952) -- only story rejected by The New Yorker after he started writing for them
  • Teddy (1953) (not a Glass Family story, but we find out in Seymour -- An Introduction that it was a story written by Buddy Glass)

• Franny and Zooey (1961)
  • Franny (1955) Glass Family
  • Zooey (1957) Glass Family

• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
  • Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters (1955) - Glass Family - Seymour's wedding day
  • Seymour -- An Introduction (1959) Glass Family - Buddy's biography of Seymour

• The Kit Book for soldiers, sailors and marines (1943)
  • The Hang of it (1941)

• Post Stories 1942-45. Ed: Ben Hibbs (1946)
  • A Boy in France (1945)

• Best American Short Stories 1949. Ed: Martha Foley (1949)
  • A Girl I Knew (1948)

• Story: The fiction of the forties. Ed: Whit Burnett (1949)
  • The Long Debut of Lois Taggett (1942)

• The Armchair Esquire. Ed: L. Rust Hills (1959)
  • This Sandwich Has no Mayonnaise (1945) Holden Caulfield

• Fiction: Form & Experience. Ed: William M. Jones (1969)
  • Go see Eddie (1940)

• Wonderful Town: New York Sortories from the New Yorker. Ed: David Remnick (2000)
  • Slight Rebellion Off Madison (1946) Holden Caulfield

Published and uncollected

• The Young Folks (1940)
• The Heart of a Broken Story (1941)
• Personal Notes on an Infantryman (1942)
• The Varioni Brothers (1943)
• Both Parties Concerned (1944)
• Soft Boiled Sergeant (1944)
• Last Day of the Last Furlough (1944) Holden Caulfield
• Once a Week Won't Kill You (1944)
• Elaine (1945)
• The Stranger (1945)
• I'm Crazy (1945) Holden Caulfield
• A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All (1947)
• The Inverted Forest (1947)
• Blue Melody (1948)
• Hapworth 16, 1924 (1965) Glass Family - A letter from Seymour about Buddy, last known Salinger work

See [1]

Unpublished and uncollected

At Princeton Library

• The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls [2] (date unknown) Holden Caulfield
• The Last and Best of the Peter Pans [3] (date unknown) Holden Caulfield
• The Magic Foxhole (1945)
• Two Lonely Men (1944)
• The Children's Echelon (1944)

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External links

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• The J. D. Salinger "Bananafish" Discussion List.
• The Letters to J.D. Salinger book
• Implied meanings in J.D. Salinger stories and reverting (English Pdf) (from http://www.tversu.ru/Science/Hermeneutics/1998-2.html )
• Salinger.org - A Fan site
• Dead Caulfields. The early life and work of J.D. Salinger
• The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye by Eric Lomazoff
• 1988 Audio Interview with Ian Hamilton, author of In Search of J. D. Salinger - RealAudio
• J.D. Salinger. Uncollected Writings - All writings in pdf, html, or word documentsbs:Jerome David Salinger

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