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__**J.D. Salinger**__

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 * 1) Is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American fiction during the second half of the twentieth century.
 * 2) J.D Salinger is best know for his contreversial novel Catcher In The Rye
 * 3) He began writing fiction
 * 4) Salinger contributed work to the school's literary magazine
 * 5) credited with composing the words to the school's anthem
 * 6) published his first story, "The Young Folks," in the spring of 1940
 * 7) In 1946 the //New Yorker// published his story "Slight Rebellion Off Madison
 * 8) "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," was later rewritten to become a part of //The Catcher in the Rye//
 * 9) //The Catcher in the Rye// quickly became a favorite among young people
 * 10) At various points in history, //The Catcher in the Rye// has been banned
 * 11) //The Catcher in the Rye// has been banned by public libraries, schools, and bookstores
 * 12) //Nine Stories,// a collection of previously published short stories came out in 1953
 * 13) Salinger contributed work to the school's literary magazine
 * 14) He did not respond to the reason of college so he quit and used this reason in alot of his writing
 * 15) Was influenced by Whit Burnette (1899–1973)
 * 16) Burnette made a lasting impression on him
 * 17) Continued to write while in service in the army during WWII
 * 18) His writing seriously took off after WWII
 * 19) He did not publish any other book until 1961 when hs much anticipated //Franny and Zooey appeared//
 * 20) In 1963 he published another glass family story sequence, //Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters;// and //Seymour: An Introduction//


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 * 1) Published one novel and many short stories between 1948-1959
 * 2) His best know work is Catcher In The Rye
 * 3) In 1939 took a short story writing class under Wit Burnette
 * 4) In the first months in europe he managed to write some stories
 * 5) Salinger's early short stories appeared in such magazines as //Story//
 * 6) First story was published in 1940
 * 7) Wrote for Story magazine
 * 8) Wrote for Saturday Evening Post
 * 9) Wrote for Esquire
 * 10) Also wrote for the New Yorker
 * 11) In 1948, A Perfect Day For BananaFish appeared
 * 12) Which introduced Seymour Glass, who commits suicide
 * 13) It was the earliest reference to the Glass family, whose stories would go on to form the main corpus of his writing
 * 14) The 'Glass cycle' continued in the collections FRANNY AND ZOOEY (1961), RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS (1963) and SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (1963)
 * 15) Several of the stories are narrated by Buddy Glass
 * 16) Salinger's first novel, //The Catcher in the Rye//, became immediately a Book-of-the-Month Club selection
 * 17) It sells still some 250 000 copies annually
 * 18) The first reviews of the work were mixed, although most critics considered it brilliant
 * 19) Salinger did not do much to help publicity, and asked that his photograph should not be used in connection with the book
 * 20) Later he turned down requests for movie adaptations of the book

Pinsker, Sanford. "Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) (1919- )." //Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature//. Vol. 1. HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. 939. //Student Edition//. Web. 30 Apr. 2010 French, Warren. "J. D. Salinger." //DISCovering Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 30 Apr. 2010. "Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) (1919-)." //DISCovering Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 30 Apr. 2010.
 * 1) Most of his story Catcher In The Rye was based on his experiences at Valley Forge Military Academy
 * 2) Published first short-story when he was 21
 * 3) Hoped to become a poet
 * 4) Became a fiction writer
 * 5) Stories appeared in a number of magazines including Story and Colliers
 * 6) Wrote for the New Yorker
 * 7) His Novel Cather In The Rye has been named as a minor classic
 * 8) Nine Stories a collection of stories that appeared originally in The New Yorker
 * 9) Most of the stories deal with precocious, troubled children, and religious problems
 * 10) The result was a perfect literary formula for the 1950s
 * 11) Wrote stories such as Perfect Day For Bananafish
 * 12) Wrote Franny and Zooey in 1961
 * 13) Wrote Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters in 1963
 * 14) Wrote Seymour: An Introduction in 1963
 * 15) Salinger continued to parcel out bits and pieces of the Glass family
 * 16) Hapworth 16, 1924 is the last installment of the Glass saga
 * 17) Appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965
 * 18) A Perfect Day for Bananafish was singled out by critics and young writers alike for special attention
 * 19) Harpwarth 16, 1924 was indicated as the end of his writing career
 * 20) Glass family has influenced much of Salinger's work
 * 1) He had only wished to preserve only a novel and thirteen short stories
 * 2) All were published between 1948 through 1959
 * 3) All mostly published in The New Yorker
 * 4) He was at least between 1951 and 1963 the most popular American fiction writer
 * 5) He had taken a short-story writing course under Whit Burnett the influential editor of Story
 * 6) His first published work The Young Folks appeared in Story in 1940
 * 7) During the 1940's he published another nineteen stories
 * 8) he has not been allowed to collect these stories
 * 9) Most are very short heavily ironic tales about troubled young people
 * 10) The stories that the author has chosen to preserve begin and end with accounts of the suicide of Seymour Glass
 * 11) A Perfect Day for Bananafish the first story in the collection //Nine Stories//
 * 1) Best known for his controversial novel //The Catcher in the Rye//
 * 2) He is recognized by critics and readers alike as one of the most popular and influential authors of American fiction to emerge after World War II
 * 3) //The Catcher in the Rye// now regarded as a classic work of adolescent angst
 * 4) He had his first piece of short fiction published in //Story//
 * 5) His short fiction soon began appearing in //Collier's//
 * 6) His short fiction soon began appearing in //The Saturday Evening Post//
 * 7) His short fiction soon began appearing in //Esquire// and other magazines
 * 8) He continued to write and publish while in the Army
 * 9) After returning to the States his career as a writer of serious fiction took off