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Biography of J. D. SalingerName: J. D. SalingerBirth Date: January 1, 1919 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: writer J. D. Salinger Best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J. D. Salinger (born 1919) is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American fiction to emerge after World War II. Salinger's reputation derives from his mastery of symbolism, his idiomatic style, and his thoughtful, sympathetic insights into the insecurities that plague both adolescents and adults.Salinger's upbringing was not unlike that of Holden Caulfield, the Glass children, and many of his other characters. Raised in Manhattan, he was the second of two children of a prosperous Jewish importer and a Scots-Irish mother. He was expelled from several private preparatory schools before graduating from Valley Forge Military Academy in 1936. While attending a Columbia University writing course, he had his first piece of short fiction published in Story, an influential periodical founded by his instructor, Whit Burnett. Salinger's short fiction soon began …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Time magazine was published1934: Outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed in a shootout with lawmen1955: Tennessee Williams published Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1962: Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel1970: French war hero and president Charles de Gaulle died1974: Richard Nixon resigned from office1981: Sandra Day O'Connor became first female Supreme Court justice1993: Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas burned down Further Reading Alsen, Eberhard, Salinger's Glass Stories as a Composite Novel, Whitson, 1983.Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 2, Gale, 1989, pp. 201-10.Belcher, W. F., and J. W. Lee, editors, J. D. Salinger and the Critics, Wadsworth, 1962.Bloom, Harold, editor, J. D. Salinger: Modern Critical Views, Chelsea House, 1987.Carpenter, Humphrey, Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature, Houghton, 1985.Children's Literature Review, Volume 18, Gale, 1989, pp. 171-94.Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: The New Consciousness, 1941-1968, Gale, 1987, pp. 448-58. New York Times, February 20, 1997, p. C15. |