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Jerome David Salinger was born January 1, 1919, in New York City, New York, United States and died January 27, 2010 (aged 91), in Cornish, New Hampshire, United States. Salinger was an American author, and is best known for his novel __//'The Catcher in the Rhye'//__, which he wrote in 1951. Salinger was raised in Manhattan by his mother, Marie, and his father, Sol Salinger. He also had an older sister, Doris (1911-2001). Photograph of J.D Salinger in 1950

Salinger began writing short stories when he was in secondary school, and published several stories before he served in World War 2. In 1948, Salinger published "//__A Perfect Day for Bannafish__//" in //__The New Yorker__// magazine. Three years later, 1951, Salinger released //__'The Catcher in the Rye'__//, which was automatically successful. But with //__'The Catcher in the Rye'__//s success, Salinger became more reclusive and began to focus on his religious studies. He began to publish work less frequently. Two years after //__'The Catcher in the Rye'__// was released, 1953, he published a short story collection called //__"Nine Stories"__//, and then following this with //__"Franny and the Zoo"__// in 1961, then a collection of two novellas, //__"Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction"__// in 1963. Salinger published his last piece of work in //'The New Yorker'// on June 1965. This piece of work was called //__"Hapworth 16, 1924"__//. He gave his last interview in 1980.

Other than writing, Salinger had many other successes during his lifetime. He surved America in World War 2, influenced many other writers such as John Updike and Richard Yates. John Updike once said, "The stoires of J.D Salinger really opened my eyes as to how yoou can weave fiction out of a set of events that seem almost unconnected, or very lightly connected.. Reading Salinger sticks in my mind as really haveing moved me up a step, as it were, toward knowing how to handle my own material." A film was released in 2000 called '//Finding Forrester'//. It was loosely based on Salinger's life. with Sean Connery playing a reclusive author whose only published novel is considered to be a masterpiece. After the publishing of this novel, the character became reclusive and remained so for pretty much the next 30 years of his life.

//__"The Catcher and the Rhye"__// has caught the eye of such film directors as Billy Wilder, Harvey Weinstein, and Steven Spielberg, all of who were desperate to get the rights to the novel. Salinger repeatedly refused, and in 1999, Joyce Maynard definitively concluded: "The only person who might ever have played Holden Caulfield would have been J. D. Salinger."

__What did the critics think about ‘The Catcher in the Rye’?__ Ever since ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was published in 1951, there had been many debates between critics about the moral issues raised by the book. Some critics believe that the way Sallinger portrayed the main character Holden Caulfield, was enlightening and fascinating, yet depressing. The novel was very controversial due to Holden’s physiological battles. The way that he reacted to various situations was seen as erratic behaviour for that time. Holden’s bad language, beliefs, depression and his nervous breakdown, have all contributed to the controversial nature3 of the novel. What else did J.D Sallinger do other than write?

World War II
In 1941, Jerome Salinger started dating Oona O’Neil, daughter of the playwright Eugene O’Neil. Despite finding the debutante self-absorbed he called her often and wrote her long letters. Their relationship ended when Oona began seeing Charlie Chaplin, whom she eventually married. In late 1941, Salinger briefly worked on a Caribbean cruise ship, serving as an activity director and possibly as a performer. That same year Salinger started submitting stories to //The New Yorker//. Seven of his stories were rejected that year but in December 1941 they accepted “Slight Rebellion of Madison”. It was set in Manhattan and it was a story about a disaffected teenager with pre-war jitters. The story however was not published until 1946 because of the attack on pearl harbour. In 1942 Salinger was drafted into the army.