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  JD Salinger
I am one of those--to do some confessing of my own-- for whom Salinger's work dawned as something of a revelation...The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Those traits of JD Salinger which most motivate his stories are not traits which are unique to the author, but traits which are shared by us all.
JD Salinger did not choose to withdraw from scrutiny because it was easy.
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  J. D. Salinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salinger is also known for his reclusive nature; he has not given an interview, made a public appearance or published any new work in the last forty years.
Salinger was born in New York City to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother (although he did not find out that his mother wasn't Jewish until he was in his late teens).
Salinger stated that her father drank his own urine, spoke in tongues, rarely had sex with her mother, kept her "a virtual prisoner" and refused to allow her to see friends or relatives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._D._Salinger   (1374 words)

  
 J. D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger was born and grew up in the fashionable apartment district of Manhattan, New York.
Salinger's early short stories appeared in such magazines as Story, where his first story was published in 1940, Saturday Evening Post and Esquire, and then in the New Yorker, which published almost all of his later texts.
Salinger did not do much to help publicity, and asked that his photograph should not be used in connection with the book.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /salinger.htm   (1327 words)

  
 Salinger, JD | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books
Salinger was devastated, and this episode is thought to have permanently jaundiced his view of the motion picture industry.
Primarily a short story writer, published in periodicals such as The New Yorker and Story, Salinger's reputation as one of the most talented writers of his generation was sealed in 1951 with the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, a touchstone of modern American literature.
Paul Alexander's Salinger: A Biography is an exhaustive account of the Salinger myth, but perhaps more revealing are Ian Hamilton's In Search of JD Salinger, which tells of the (primarily legal) difficulties in trying to write about the man, and Dream Catcher, the controversial autobiography of his daughter, Margaret Salinger.
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 Dueling Biographies of J.D. Salinger
Salinger seems satisfied with presenting information, rather than analyzing it; for instance, we're told that the young J.D. ran away a lot as a child, but never offered any explanation as to why, or as to how that might have informed his development as an artist or young man. On those rare occasions when Ms.
Salinger does attempt to more closely examine her father, she does so through the cipher of his work, or other people's (she quotes Maynard throughout) rather than relaying memories of his real-life behaviors or attitudes.
Salinger's book is a color-by-numbers memoir of her own life, which might have been salvageable if, by her proximity to her father, we were able to glean information about the man himself.
www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/old_issues/0144_dueling_biographies_jd_salinger.html   (1323 words)

  
 A Brief Biography of J. D. Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salinger testified in court in 1986 that he continues to write and he's told a couple reporters who have barged in on him that he continues to write.
Salinger was strange before the publication of The Catcher in the Rye but his reclusiveness and odd behavior took a dramatic upswing during its publication.
Salinger agreed to allow his last story from the New Yorker, Hapworth 16, 1924 to be published by Orchises Press of Virginia but when it will be out is anybody's guess.
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 Featured Author: J. D. Salinger
Salinger is a very serious artist, and it is likely that what he has to say will find many forms as time goes by.
Salinger's merits are often confused with nostalgia for his impact on 1950's youth, but this essay says that, "It's nostalgia, as a matter of fact, that can keep us from seeing and saying that Salinger is one of the very best living writers.
Salinger's daughter Margaret (Peggy) Salinger announced that she is preparing to publish a memoir of her childhood and relationship with her father.
partners.nytimes.com /books/00/10/08/specials/salinger.html   (858 words)

  
 The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger's portrayal of Holden, which includes incidents of depression, nervous breakdown, impulsive spending, sexual exploration, vulgarity, and other erratic behavior, have all attributed to the controversial nature of the novel.
Much of Salinger's reputation, which he acquired after publication of The Catcher in the Rye, is derived from thoughtful and sympathetic insights into both adolescence and adulthood, his use of symbolism, and his idiomatic style, which helped to re-introduce the common idiom to American literature.
of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
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 Dead Caulfields Home
The clear winners were Albert Camus' The Outsider and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, both tales of angst and alienation in the modern world.
The characters of JD Salinger are not fabrications, they are you and I. Their triumphs are the same triumphs contained in the seemingly average moments of our lives that we overlook.
But thoughtful readers of JD Salinger will realize that the Caulfields never really die; that death is a spiritual state that we struggle against from the moment of awareness; that the loss of "innocence" is actually the loss of the ignorance of that struggle.
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 Books | JD Salinger
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, but don't expect official celebrations; the author lives a notoriously reclusive life.
Shortly after he moved to Cornish in New Hampshire to escape the unwelcome attention engendered by Catcher's success, Salinger gave an interview to a schoolgirl from the local paper, in which he explained that Holden's boyhood was based on his own.
Two years after his romantic life was exposed, his daughter lifted the lid on her childhood with a father who, she claimed, drank his own urine, kept his wife a prisoner and spoke in tongues.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4222580-99931,00.html   (461 words)

  
 J.D. Salinger Biography (born 1919)
Jerome David Salinger, American novelist and short story writer, was born in New York in 1919 to a prosperous Jewish importer of Kosher cheese and his Scotch-Irish wife.
However, Salinger is best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), the story of adolescent Holden Caulfield who runs away from boarding school in Pennsylvania to New York, where he preserves his innocence despite various attempts to lose it.
The colloquial, lively, first-person narration, with its attacks on the 'phomimess' of the adult world and its clinging to family sentiment in the form of Holden's affection for his sister Phoebe, made the novel accessible to and popular with a wide readership, particularly with the young.
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 J.D. Salinger - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
J.D. Salinger was this guy, he was a writer I think.
When this Salinger guy was a kid, I guess he must have written a lot or else he wouldn't be a writer.
So this Salinger guy got real sick of all these phonies trying to tell him how grand he was, so he went away for about fifty years and never told anybody anything.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/J.D._Salinger   (642 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye at Epinions.com
JD Salinger wrote a masterpiece before pulling a public Houdini that removed him permanently from the spotlight.
Salinger has been celebrated as recently as Wes Anderson’s ode to his more playful side in the film The Royal Tenenbaums, as well as clearly being a primary motivator of the film Finding Forrester, and forming a central plot point of an astute dissertation in the film and stage versions of Six Degrees of Separation.
What Salinger did after the success of Catcher has solidified his legend as perhaps the writer most in touch with his characters and, perhaps tragically, the least able to learn from the lessons these characters taught.
www.epinions.com /content_273676799620   (1410 words)

  
 Classic Authors: J.D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in New York City.
In 1942, J.D. was drafted by the United States Army.
According to some, J.D. Salinger's writing finally received some recognition in 1948, with the publication of 3 stories in the New Yorker: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and "Just Before the War with the Eskimos." The New Yorker was considered the top market among young writers seeking publication.
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 J.D. Salinger
New York City, Jan. 1, 1919, established his reputation on the basis of a single novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), whose principal character, Holden Caulfield, epitomized the growing pains of a generation of high school and college students.
The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye by Eric Lomazoff
The Letters to J.D. Salinger Home Page: The Official Web Site of the (Inevitably) Soon to be Published Book, Letters to J.D. Salinger.
www.levity.com /corduroy/salinger.htm   (362 words)

  
 jd salinger, English, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
Salinger In each short story by J. Salinger, a main character struggles with a question concerning different factors in their own life.
In Salingers story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymore Glass is a young man on Vacation in Florida that was with his wife who is as beautiful as can be and in love with the man, Seymore once was.
Salinger does a great way to go into detail on what happens to these characters and what they do to solve their own problems.
www.chuckiii.com /Reports/English/jd_salinger.shtml   (733 words)

  
 'Catcher' related links at LinkHighWay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
JD Salinger in 1951, the year "The Catcher in the Rye" was published.
JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1)
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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 DNK Amazon Store :: Dream Catcher: A Memoir
Salinger's analysis of her father seems psychologically (and literarily) acute, but--urine-drinking aside--there's nothing she tells us about his character that a diligent reader of his books doesn't instinctively know.
A picture of JD Salinger emerges - he becomes a recognizable archetype of everyone's least favorite uncle, with irrational hatreds and pretensions and a chilling inability to relate to children, his wife, or his family.
JD Salinger, according to Margaret, was also cruel to her mother.
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 salinger
Salinger was drafted in 1942 and served initially in the air corps.
Salinger has published no new fiction since 1966 and generally refuses to talk or write about his life, although a handful of interviews have been published.
SOURCES: Books and Writers: J(erome) D(avid) Salinger (1919-), http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm; Walter French, J.D. Salinger, Boston: Twayne, 1976; Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, The Fiction of J.D. Salinger, Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 1958; John M. Howell, “Salinger in the Waste Land,” in Critical Essays on Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Ed.
www.northern.edu /hastingw/salinger.html   (809 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Catcher in the Rye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The title, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.
In J.D. Salinger's brilliant coming-of-age novel, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old prep school adolescent relates his lonely, life-changing twenty-four hour stay in New York City as he experiences the phoniness of the adult world while attempting to deal with the death of his younger brother, an overwhelming compulsion to lie and troubling sexual experiences.
Salinger, whose characters are among the best and most developed in all of literature has captured the eternal angst of growing into adulthood in the person of Holden Caulfield.
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 Anti Essays : : Style of JD Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
Salinger uses religion as a means for liberation.
Salinger uses loneliness also as a means to change in life.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of J.D. Salinger
Salinger's only novel drew from characters he had already created in two short stories published in 1945 and 1946, "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" and "I'm Crazy." The latter story is an alternate take on several of the chapters in The Catcher in the Rye.
Salinger followed The Catcher in the Rye with Nine Stories (1953), a selection of his best literary work, and Franny and Zooey in 1961, which draws from two earlier stories in The New Yorker.
Maynard later became a published writer herself, publishing the comic novel To Die For and, in controversial move, publishing a memoir concerning her relationship with Salinger that implied that Salinger's demand for privacy stemmed from his awareness that his activities, such as several relationships with young women such as Maynard, would mar his reputation.
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 CNN.com - J.D. Salinger's daughter writes tell-all memoir - August 31, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) -- J.D. Salinger, the fiercely private author of "The Catcher in the Rye," has been exposed again -- this time, by his own daughter, who says in a new memoir that he drank his own urine, spoke in tongues and rarely had sex with her mother.
Salinger's mother, Claire Douglas, was an Irish Catholic high school girl in New York when she met Salinger, who was then in his 30s.
Salinger, her father also studied Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science and engaged in a hodgepodge of practices, including drinking urine, sitting in a Reichian "orgone box," speaking in tongues and fasting.
www.cnn.com /2000/US/08/31/salinger.revealed.ap   (583 words)

  
 What the heck is it with JD Salinger? - RPGnet Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I check JDS Nine Stories out of the library and was glad that a few of the stories involved his Glass family, which I found interesting after reading Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymore, a Memoir.
In Cornish, Salinger, who was now 34, devoted some of his social life to entertaining teenagers who attended the local high school.
As Salinger’s romance with Claire blossomed, he was also in the process of imagining Franny Glass, one of his most fully realized characters and one who bears more than a passing resemblance to Claire herself.
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 Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Another JD Salinger
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His father, Sol Salinger, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is said to have been the son of a rabbi.
But other sources say that Salinger has never admitted this marriage and the records of the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics fail to indicate that a divorce was granted in that state in 1947 to Jerome David Salinger (French 26).
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 JDS FAQ
Salinger, perhaps still a little reluctant in 1948 to abandon anti-materialism, an early preoccupation of his, in favor of simple anti-'intellectual-treasurism,' leaves threads of the former sticking out of the story all over the place.
JDS apparently became fascinated with Ramakrishna's philosophy sometime in the early 50's and studied Advaita Vedanta (literally, non-dualistic ultimate knowledge) under Swami Nikhilananda, founder of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center in New York City (just around the corner from JDS' parents' Park Avenue apartment), who is also the author of The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna(TGOSR).
JDS is said to have become good friends with him and his successor, Swami Adiswarananda, and was reported to be attending lectures, summer seminars etc. till well into the 90's.
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