Contemporary Literary Criticism | Salinger, J.D. - About J. D. Salinger

About J. D. Salinger

• YOUTH AND EDUCATION
• EARLY WRITING CAREER AND WORLD WAR II
• POSTWAR WRITING
• THE CATCHER IN THE RYE AND UNSOUGHT CELEBRITY
• LAST PUBLISHED WORKS
• ART IMITATING LIFE
• AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
• NOTES

YOUTH AND EDUCATION

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City on 1 January 1919, the second child of Sol and Miriam Salinger. A daughter, Doris, had been born to the couple in 1911. Sol Salinger was born in Cleveland, Ohio.¹ He married the Scotch-Irish Marie Jillich, who later changed her name to Miriam in order to accommodate her Jewish husband and his parents.² Before moving to New York, the Salingers lived in Chicago, where Sol managed a...

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