J.D Salinger

Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which he published in 1951. Before the book's release, Salinger wrote many short stories in Story magazine and served in WWII. His critically lauded tale "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" first appeared in The New Yorker in 1948, and from that, the magazine go on to print most of his subsequent work.

The Catcher in the Rye, his most renowned work, was published in 1945–1946 and then released as a novel in 1951. It was an immediate hit with the public, and it has since been ranked as one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Following the novel, he published Nine Stories (1953), a collection of short stories that was highly acclaimed and influenced writers such as Philip Roth, John Updike, and Harold Brodkey. Salinger's final published work was a novella named Hapworth 16, 1924, which was published in The New Yorker in 1965.

Famous Novels: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955), Seymour: An Introduction (1955),...