J.D. Salinger Biography
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger died on January 27th of 2010 at 91 years old. The author arises on the
1950’s when he wrote The Catcher in the Rye a book that has marked a generation of
youth ever since, his success has been due to his shorter stories that shared about
religious and philosophical territory and that is what he was good at. He was born on
January 1st of 1919 in New York that means success came to him at a young age and was
recognized as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was the youngest
of two children of Sol Salinger, the son of a rabbi that was involved in the ham and
cheese importing business that is kind of an irony because neither cheese or ham are
kosher, but his mother Miriam had an non-Jewish background he did not know about
until his Bar Mitzvah when he learned about her mother. He wasn’t very good at school
and due to his flunk at a school in the New York’s Upper West Side he was shipped
to a military academy. After graduating he went back to his hometown to attend to the
New York University before traveling to Europe. On his trip to Vienna given by his
to improve another language and learn about business but he concentrated on the
language, at this one university Ursinus College in Pennsylvania Salinger met a professor
named Whit Burnett and he changed his life feeding his talent for writing short stories
and getting them to be not only in the teachers magazine but big name publications too.
After finding love twice he got a divorce and then kicking Joyce Maynard of his home.
In 2000 his daughter Margaret wrote a negative side of his father that had mixed reviews.
He married Colleen O’Neill until his death in January 27th, 2010. In 2013 a biography of
the writer entitled Salinger.
bio.true story, . N.p.. Web. 27 Nov 2013. .
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J.D. Salinger died on January 27th of 2010 at 91 years old. The author arises on the
1950’s when he wrote The Catcher in the Rye a book that has marked a generation of
youth ever since, his success has been due to his shorter stories that shared about
religious and philosophical territory and that is what he was good at. He was born on
January 1st of 1919 in New York that means success came to him at a young age and was
recognized as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was the youngest
of two children of Sol Salinger, the son of a rabbi that was involved in the ham and
cheese importing business that is kind of an irony because neither cheese or ham are
kosher, but his mother Miriam had an non-Jewish background he did not know about
until his Bar Mitzvah when he learned about her mother. He wasn’t very good at school
and due to his flunk at a school in the New York’s Upper West Side he was shipped
to a military academy. After graduating he went back to his hometown to attend to the
New York University before traveling to Europe. On his trip to Vienna given by his
to improve another language and learn about business but he concentrated on the
language, at this one university Ursinus College in Pennsylvania Salinger met a professor
named Whit Burnett and he changed his life feeding his talent for writing short stories
and getting them to be not only in the teachers magazine but big name publications too.
After finding love twice he got a divorce and then kicking Joyce Maynard of his home.
In 2000 his daughter Margaret wrote a negative side of his father that had mixed reviews.
He married Colleen O’Neill until his death in January 27th, 2010. In 2013 a biography of
the writer entitled Salinger.
bio.true story, . N.p.. Web. 27 Nov 2013. .
.