Information about J.D. Salinger

Full name: Jerome David Salinger
He is from a well-to-do family on Park Avenue; his father was the importer of kosher cheese. He was called "Sonny" as a boy and went off to prep school, was drafted in the Army and took part in the invasion of Normandy. His comrades considered him to be very brave - a genuine hero. He came back to New York where his early short stories appeared in Story magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and then, in The New Yorker with a story called "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" (1948). His first novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), was an immediate success and still sells about a quarter million copies a year.
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Salinger's Daughter's Truths as Mesmerizing as His Fiction by Dinittia Smith. New York Times; August 30, 2000
Visit With J. D. Salinger, This article recounts how Betty Eppes, a reporter for The Baton Rouge Advocate, managed a brief interview with J. D. Salinger, which was later published in The Paris Review. The New York Times, September 11, 1981
Where to Find the Sequel to 'The Catcher in the Rye'. In a rare interview, Salinger was quoted in the Boston Globe saying, " I write for myself and I want to be left absolutely alone to do it. . . . There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there." The New York Times, July 8, 1980
J. D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence. Salinger broke a public silence of more than 20 years, issuing a denunciation and revealing he is hard at work on writings that may never be published in his lifetime. The New York Times, November 3, 1974
The Truth about J.D. Salinger. Margaret Salinger's memoir of her life and of her father, "Dream Catcher," exposes the cracks in the facade of the Salinger mystique.

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Garrison Keillor talks about J.D. Salinger on the occasion of his birthday, January 1, 2004; The Writer's Almanac (Real 0:51)
The sale of the secret love letter. NPR; June 22, 1999 (Real 7:00)

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