Salinger, J[erome] D[avid]
Salinger, J[erome] D[avid]( 1919– ),New York-born writer, resident in New Hampshire, began to publish stories in the early 1940s; and after service as an infantry sergeant in Europe during World War II he wrote more stories, but has not chosen to collect them from Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Story, and other journals. His first book was The Catcher in the Rye (1951), about an unhappy teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who runs away from his boarding school as part of his disgust with “phoniness,” and who because of his feelings and the idiom in which he communicated them became, particularly for a generation of high-school and college students, a symbol of purity and sensitivity. In Nine Stories (1953), printing stories written beginning in 1948, including A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Salinger introduced his chronicle of an eccentric, warm-hearted family named Glass, continued in his next books of stories....
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