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J.D. Salinger

Born

in Manhattan, New York, The United States

January 01, 1919

Died

January 27, 2010

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flauber ...more

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Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.

People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield especially influenced adolescent re ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 4,026,633 ratings · 108,369 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,570,980 ratings — published 1951 — 682 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 224,697 ratings — published 1957 — 260 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Stories 4.18 avg rating — 148,414 ratings — published 1953 — 283 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction 4.11 avg rating — 51,497 ratings — published 1955 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Day for Bananafish 4.28 avg rating — 11,830 ratings — published 1948 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Early Stories 3.64 avg rating — 2,998 ratings — published 1940 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جنگل واژگون by J.D. Salinger, بابک تبرایی (Translator), سحر ساعی (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 2,054 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hapworth 16, 1924 3.65 avg rating — 1,325 ratings — published 1965 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Над пропастью во ржи by J.D. Salinger, Джером Д. Сэлинджер, Рита Райт-Ковалева (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Над пропастью во ржи by J.D. Salinger, Джером Д. Сэлинджер 3.78 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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