J.D. Salinger (Author of The Catcher in the Rye)

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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 · 4,221,792 ratings · 118,286 reviews · 183 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,752,817 ratings — published 1951 — 33 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 — 232,556 ratings — published 1957 — 270 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 — 151,915 ratings — published 1953 — 309 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 4.10 avg rating — 52,532 ratings — published 1955 — 208 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 4.27 avg rating — 12,534 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 — 3,103 ratings — published 1940 — 21 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
	袧邪写锌褉芯锌邪褋褌褜褞胁芯褉卸懈 by J.D. Salinger, 袛卸械褉芯屑袛. 小褝谢懈薪写卸械褉, 袪懈褌邪袪邪泄褌-袣芯胁邪谢械胁邪 (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 2,576 ratings — 14 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
	噩賳诏賱賵丕跇诏賵賳 by J.D. Salinger, 亘丕亘讴鬲亘乇丕蹖蹖 (Translator), 爻丨乇爻丕毓蹖 (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 2,088 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 3.64 avg rating — 1,373 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
	The Catcher in the Rye/Franny and Zooey/Nine Stories/Raise High the Roof Beam 4.24 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — 2 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鈥攊f 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.”
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June 2023 Short Story/Novella Poll

Children of the Corn by Stephen King, 50 pages, 1977

41 votes, 19.7%

Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott, 117 pages, 1866

39 votes, 18.8%

The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, 52 pages, 1834

31 votes, 14.9%

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 48 pages, 1970

29 votes, 13.9%

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 24 pages, 1946

28 votes, 13.5%

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger, 18 pages, 1948

24 votes, 11.5%

So Long a Letter by Mariama B芒, 90 pages, 1980

16 votes, 7.7%

208 total votes

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