The Biography of JD Salinger

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JD Salinger, author of Catcher In The rye dies at the age of 91

JD Salinger died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire, aged 91 on Wednesday.

The writer, who has never published an original work over the past 45 years, was the creator of The Catcher in the Rye, the delinquent, Holden Caulfield and, other books were the Nine stories and Franny and Zooey.

The son of a Polish Jewish father and his Scot-Irish mother, Jerome David Salinger was born in New York at New Years day,1919 and grew up in Manhattan. His father became wealthy importing cheese and meat. He had his own troubled history in various schools until he was dispatched at 15 to Valley Forge military academy. Then at night using a torch under his bed covers he began writing. There he began writing at night using a torch under his bed covers and published his first story in a fiction magazine in 1940.

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The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951, which was around the Cold War anxiety; it is now one of the most influential American novels of the era. With its instant hit to many people, some school boards made it required reading. While others banned it as it had frequent swearing and the bad example they believed Caulfield set.

However the author became disillusioned with the publishing industry and lived a reclusive life, publishing only a handful of highly influential works. However not all has been good, as his reputation has been tarnished in recent years, one by a ...

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