![]() ![]() Sensing Salinger’s talent for language, Burnett encouraged him to pursue his fiction. While taking classes at the latter, he met Whit Burnett, a professor who also edited Story magazine. Salinger was a restless student, attending New York University, Ursinus College, and Columbia University in succession. Salinger worked on The Catcher in the Rye while fighting in World War II. A bildungsroman ( coming-of-age) story about an aimless young man named Holden Caulfield on a mission to find himself after being expelled from a private school, The Catcher in the Rye ushered in a new era of philosophical literature, becoming a staple of classrooms across the country.Ĭheck out some facts about Salinger’s war experiences, his disappointing fling with Hollywood, and one curious choice of beverage. The author, who was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, published only one novel in his lifetime, 1951’s The Catcher in the Rye-but what a novel it was. For the past few decades, if any artist has been celebrated for a slim body of work and subsequently disappeared from public view, they’ve invited comparison to Jerome David (J.D.) Salinger. ![]()
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