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Biography

Name: J. D. Salinger
Variant Name: Jerome David Salinger
Birth Date: January 1, 1919
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
8,046 words, approx. 27 pages
Confronting another in an apparently unending series of collected essays about J. D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a British reviewer once asked with some asperity why nearly every American critic who wrote about the novel seemed compelled...
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Biography of J. D. Salinger
6,755 words, approx. 23 pages
Best known for his controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), J. D. Salinger (born 1919) is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American fiction to emerge after World War II. Salinger's...
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Biography of J. D. Salinger
6,297 words, approx. 21 pages
The entire body of writing by which Jerome David Salinger wishes to be known is contained in four small books—one novel and thirteen short stories. All of these were published in the eleven and a half years between January 1948 and June 1959; and...
 


Quotations
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Jerome David Salinger (born 1919-01-01 ) is an American author, most famous for his novel The Catcher in the Rye . See also: The Catcher in the Rye Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Catcher in the Rye (1951) 1.2 Nine Stories (1953) 1.2.1 A Perfect Day for...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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J. D. Salinger Information
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Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) (pronounced /ˈsælɨndʒɚ/) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. He has not published an original work since 1965 and has not been...


News and Journals
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Vibe.com
Twista - Kamikaze (Atlantic)
3/3/2004: 566 words, approx. 2 pages
Artists and critics alike often complain about hip hop fans’ fickle, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately disposition. And, generally speaking, artists who spend more than a year in the lab are viewed as J.D. Salinger–style hermits or weirdo Orson Welles–ish auteurs. For that reason, Chicago’s allegiance to Twista—arguably the...
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AP News
Today in History-Jan 1
12/31/2007: 538 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2008. There are 365 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Jan. 1, 1808, a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect.On this...
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The New York Observer
Dear Firstborn Sisters and Brothers,
6/26/2007: 603 words, approx. 2 pages
You must be feeling pretty good about yourselves these days, ever since those Norwegian epidemiologists conferred the equivalent of intellectual primogeniture on all of you. And truth be told, we’d be feeling pretty good about ourselves too if the report had gone the other way...
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AP News
Jerry Seinfeld returns with `Bee Movie'
10/30/2007: 1,021 words, approx. 3 pages
Jerry Seinfeld casually refers to "the TV show" like it was just another resume entry, a vaguely familiar event from his past.Wait, wasn't that TV show "Seinfeld"? One of the greatest comedies in TV history? You know, the one with double-dippers, puffy shirts and mimbos?Seinfeld,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Martin Bidney
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In the following essay, Bidney examines the role of epiphanies in Salinger's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by James Lundquist
4,143 words, approx. 14 pages
This is 1979, and it has been twenty-eight years since Holden Caulfield dragged his deer-hunting cap and his prep-school heart through Manhattan. But J. D. Salinger's ideas on the true and the false in American culture, his religious solutions to the crises of alienation and isolation, and his overriding sentimentality may have had more impact on the American brainscape than anyone yet has taken into account. Since the publication of a long story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in The New Yorker ...
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Critical Essay by Alfred F. Boe
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In the following essay, Boe asserts that Salinger employs sport as a significant thematic device in many of his stories.
 
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J.D. Salinger: The Man Behind the Novel
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A biography of author J.D. Salinger.


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