J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger
J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger grew up in New York City (1919). Sol Salinger, his father, was a salesperson. Marie, his mother, was a stay-at-home mom. While attending Valley Forge Military Academy as an adolescent, Salinger began composing stories. He graduated in 1936 and enrolled at Columbia University in Manhattan. It was there that his writing professor, who also happened to be an editor at Story magazine, fell in love with his work. In 1940, he got J.D. Salinger's vignette "The Young Folks" published.
During WWII, Salinger began sending short tales to The New Yorker. After rejecting seven of his works, it accepted "Slight Rebellion Madison" in 1941. Salinger's stories are mostly about youngsters or teens. The action takes place in New York City's affluent suburbs. His writing style was frequently compared to that of F. Scott Fitzgerald by readers.
In the years following the war, Salinger produced many additional short stories in Story magazine and worked as a contributing editor for the publication from 1946 to 1947. For approximately twenty years, Salinger worked almost entirely for the New Yorker, quitting in the mid-1950s.
In his classic Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger famously depicted adolescent anguish (released in 1951). He wrote the novella Hapworth 16, 1924 in 1965. This is a novella recounted from the perspective of Seymour Glass, the brother of a character from J.D. Salinger's early work, "The Catcher in the Rye." It was published in The New Yorker and had artwork by J.D. Salinger. Salinger's other books include "Franny" (1955) and "Zooey" (1957), "Raise High the Roof Beam" (1955), "Carpenters" (1955), and "Seymour: An Introduction" (1959).
