He had one sibling, an older sister, Doris (1912–2001). Salinger did not learn that his mother was not of Jewish ancestry until just after he celebrated his bar mitzvah. Salinger's mother, Marie (née Jillich), was born in Atlantic, Iowa, of German, Irish, and Scottish descent, "but changed her first name to Miriam to appease her in-laws" and considered herself Jewish after marrying Salinger's father. His father, Sol Salinger, traded in kosher cheese, and was from a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent, his own father having been the rabbi for the Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Louisville, Kentucky. Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, on January 1, 1919. Afterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover and his daughter Margaret Salinger.ġ133 Park Avenue in Manhattan, where Salinger grew up Salinger's last published work, the novella " Hapworth 16, 1924," appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953) Franny and Zooey (1961), a volume containing a novella and a short story and a volume containing two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). Salinger became reclusive, publishing less frequently.
The novel was widely read and controversial, and its success led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success.
In 1948, his critically acclaimed story " A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work. Before its publication, Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine and served in World War II.
Jerome David Salinger ( / ˈ s æ l ɪ n dʒ ər/ January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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