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-I'm sure all of you high school students had to read this book named "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger, even though he's dead now. He died in jan 27, 2010 of natural causes in his home at Cornish New Hampshire. So he lived a long life up to 91 yrs old. Cool, huh?
-But let's not talk about the old stuff. There are way more interesting things that happened when he was younger. JD Salinger was born to Sol Salinger, a Jewish man who ran a thriving cheese & ham import business and to Miriam, a Chrisitian woman who was Scottish-born before becoming Jewish. Now here's the interesting part: mixed marriages were looked down upon by society at that time, not that it still doesn't, so to protect herself, Miriam hid her non-Jewish background. In fact, she hid it so well that JD Salinger only found out when he was 14, after his bar mitzvah! That's the age when we're all in high school! Can you imagine that happening to you?
-Remember when in The Catcher in the Rye, we learn that the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, was kicked out of a school for failing nearly all his courses? Well, looks like the author isn't any different. He flunked out of one of the public schools he attended, named McBurney School. So his parents shipped him off to Valley Forge Military Academy all the way in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Don't worry guys, he finished graduating that. It was at this time in high school when he started to write.
-Once he graduated, JD returned to his hometown for a year to attend NY U before going to Europe since his father encouraged him to learn another language and about the import business, although, he payedmore attention to language than to business. Then, he attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and took night classes at Columbia University, where he met Professor Whit Burnett, who was a really skilled teacher and editor of Story, an influential magazine that featured short stories. He encouraged JD to write more, and soon enough his stories started to appear in periodicals and magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and The New Yorker.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbour though, he had to serve in the US army during WWII from 1942-1946. He still continued to write and had begun creating the character Holden Caulfield. However, he had to be hospitalized later on after he had a nervous breakdown due to war trauma. Afterwards, his writing style & name became more commonly associated with the magazine The New Yorker, where he would publish almost all of his later stories. Some of his stories incorporated his wartime experience.
Once he returned to NY in 1946, he couninued writing and published in 1951 his most major & popular work which I'm sure all of you can guess, "The Catcher in the Rye"! It became famous among the post WWII generation of college students and was widely read and controversial. Now JD was someone who really didn't like public attention, so to escape the unwanted attention it gave him, he moved in 1953 to a secluded place at Cornish, New Hampshire and lead a very reclusive life. The only thing he publishedafterwards was a novella, which was his last work, named "Hapworth 16, 1924" in the June 19, 1965 edition of The New Yorker. His last interview was in 1980.
-Now this isn't the end yet! We still haven't talked about some of his notable works. These include, The Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey (1961), A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948), For Esme- with Love & Squalor in 1950, Hapworth 16, 1924 in 1965, and Nine Stories in 1953. Even though he didn't publish much, his works inspired writers like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Harold McBurney.
Now, if you haven't read The Catcher in the Rye or any of his other works yet, you should read it. It might just inspire you.
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