J. D. Salinger

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919, the son of an importer of cheeses and meats, and completed his schooling at Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. He landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944, fought in the Battle of the Ardennes and in 1945 entered a subcamp of Dachau; he was hospitalised at the end of the war. He published almost exclusively in the New Yorker, settled in 1953 in Cornish, New Hampshire, stopped publishing in 1965 and refused interviews as well as adaptations. He died there in 2010.

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• NovelThe Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger · 1951Literature