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Salinger Born:
Jerome David Salinger, Manhattan, New York, 1st January, 1919
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Salinger was born and raised on Park Avenue, in the fashionable and wealthy apartment
district of Manhattan, to Sol Salinger, a wealthy Jewish meat importer and his
half Scottish, half Irish Catholic wife, Miriam. The young Salinger, called Sonny
throughout his childhood, had a frosty relationship with his father, a cold man
who expected Salinger to take over his business when he retired (Salinger failed
to attend his funeral and later took up vegetarianism). He also experienced great
conflict about his mixed background.
After
an unsettled education at various private schools, he was sent to Valley Forge
Military Academy, Pennsylvania in 1934 and although he started off enjoying the
change, the experience was not a successful one and Salinger left just two years
later. He travelled in Europe in his late teens before attending Ursinus College
and New York University, where he fell in love with an older women, Oona O'Neill,
who was later to marry Charlie Chaplin. He also attended a short story course
under the tutor Whit Burnett who was also the editor of Story Magazine,
which published Salinger's first short story, The Young Folks in 1940.
Although a charismatic and funny classmate who often played the fool, Salinger
was noted as being the charming loner, the kid who chose his own company above
those of his friends, a trait which was to have a dramatic effect on his life
in later years.
With
the arrival of the Second World War, Salinger was drafted into the infantry and
became involved in one of the bloodiest invasions of the conflict; the Battle
of Normandy. In the first couple of weeks, 75% of the soldiers in his unit (The
Twelfth Infantry Regiment) died and that period witnessed some of the biggest
blunders made by Allied generals. Salinger managed to continue writing throughout
the war, even meeting Ernest Hemingway in Paris. His experiences of serving in
the American military were fictionalised in his story, For Esme - With Love
and Squalor.
In
1945 Salinger married a young French women, known only as Sylvia, divorcing after
just two years together. In 1955 he married Claire Douglas, the daughter of British
art critic Robert Langton Douglas. They had two children although Salinger's now
obvious reclusive nature (which had begun in 1951 as a reaction to the success
of The Catcher in the Rye) had a negative effect on their relationship
and they divorced in 1967. His attraction to young women continued in his courtship
of the 19-year-old Joyce Maynard, a writer whom he contacted after seeing her
photograph on the front of a magazine cover. TV actress Elaine Joyce also moved
in with him for a while, their romantic relationship lasting about seven years.
Salinger is now married to his third wife, a nurse called Colleen O'Neil and some
biographers argue that he lives in the same house he bought back in 1953 in Cornish,
New Hampshire. Ever since the late '60s, Salinger has avoided publicity, refusing
to give interviews or comment on his work. When he has chosen to make rare statements
to the press, Salinger has insisted that the less that is known about the author,
the greater the attention that can be directed to the written word. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/salinger/pg3.shtml
21 [Under-published] stories
The
Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger - Vol.
I. pdf & Vol. II. pdf (psw:"open")
Twenty-One
Stories > Word
> Word+zip
(it's ready for printing out and pasting together into a book)
Front
cover > Word
Dedication > Word
Table of contents > Word
Bibliography > Word
The
Young Folks > html
> Word
Story XVI, March-April 1940, pages 26-36
Go
See Eddie > html
> Word
The Kansas Review VII, December 1940, pages 121-124
The
Hang of It > html
> Word
Collier's CVIII, July 12 1941, page 22
The
Heart of a Broken Story > html
> Word
Esquire XVI, September 1941, Page 32, 131-133
The
Long Debut of Lois Taggett > html
> Word
Story XXI, September/October 1942, pages 28-34
Personal
Notes on an Infantryman > html >
Word
Collier's CX, December 12 1942, page 96
The
Varioni Brothers > html
> Word
Saturday Evening Post CCXVI, July 17 1943, pages 12-13, 76-77
Both
Parties Concerned > html
> Word
Saturday Evening Post CCXVI, February 26 1944, pages 14, 47
Originally to
be titled Wake Me When it Thunders
Soft
Boiled Sergeant > html
> Word
Saturday Evening Post CCXVI, April 15 1944, pages 18, 32, 82-85
Originally
to be titled Death of a Dogface
Last Day of the Last Furlough > html >
Word
Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, July 15 1944, pages 26-27, 61-62, 64
Once
a Week Won't Kill You > html
> Word
Story XXV, November/December 1944, pages 23-27
A
Boy in France > html
> Word
Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31 1945, pages 21, 92
Elaine
> html >
Word
Story XXV, March/April 1945, pages 38-47
This
Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise > html
> Word
Esquire XXIV, October 1945, pages 54-56, 147-149
The
Stranger > html
> Word
Collier's CXVI, December 1 1945, pages 18, 77
I'm
Crazy > html
> Word
Collier's CXVI, December 22 1945, pages 36, 48, 51
Slight
Rebellion Off Madison > html
> Word
The New Yorker 22, December 1946, 76-79 or 82-86
A
Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All > html
> Word
Mademoiselle 25, May 1947, pages 222-223, 292-302
The
Inverted Forest > html
> Word
Cosmopolitan, December 1947, pages 73-109
A
Girl I Knew > html
> Word
Good Housekeeping 126, Feb 1948, pages 37, 186-196
Originally to be titled
Wien, Wien
Blue
Melody > html
> Word
Cosmopolitan, September 1948, pages 50-51, 112-119
Originally to be titled
Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record
The
Catcher in the Rye > html
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951, 277 pages
Nine
Stories > Word
Boston: Little, Brown, 1953, 302 pages
A
Perfect Day for Bananafish > html
The New Yorker, January
31, 1948, pages 21-25
Uncle Wiggily
in Connecticut > html
The New Yorker, March 20, 1948, pages 30-36
Just
Before the War with the Eskimos > html
The New Yorker, June 5,
1948, pages 37-40, 42, 44, 46
The Laughing Man
> html
The New Yorker, March 19, 1949, pages 27-32
Down at the Dinghy > html
Harpers CXCVIII, April,
1949, pages 87-91
For Esmé - with Love and Squalor > html
The New Yorker, April 8,
1950, pages 28-36
Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes > html
The New Yorker, July 14,
1951, pages 20-24
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period > html
World Review XXXIX, May,
1952, pages 33-48
Teddy > html
The New Yorker, January
31, 1953, pages 26-34, 36, 38, 40-41, 44-45
Franny
and Zooey > Word
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961, 201 pages
Franny > html
The New Yorker, January 29, 1955, pages 24-32, 35-36, 38, 40, 42-43
Zooey > html
The New Yorker, May 4, 1957, pages 32-42, 44, 47-48, 50, 52, 54, 57-59, 62, 64,
67-68, 70, 73-74, 76-78, 80-82, 87-90, 92-96, 99-102, 105-106, 108-112, 115-122,
125-139
Raise
High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Boston: Little, Brown, 1963,
248 pages
Dedication
> html
Raise High the
Roof Beam, Carpenters > html
> Word
The New Yorker, November 19, 1955, pages 51-58, 60, 62, 65-66, 70, 72-74,
76, 78-80, 83-84, 86, 88-90, 92, 94-98, 101-102, 104-105, 107-112, 114-116
Seymour:
An Introduction > html
> Word
The New Yorker, June 6, 1959, pages 42-52, 54, 57, 60, 62, 64, 66-68, 71-72,
74, 76-78, 80, 82, 84, 89, 90-102, 105-116, 119
Hapworth
16, 1924 > html
> Word
The New Yorker, June 19, 1965, pages 32-113
Train
Wreck Recluse > Word
Salinger's
Ursinus Articles
Miscellaneous
& Rare Salinger Writings
Giles Weaver & J. D. Salinger
Notes
- Salinger's Unpublished & Lost Stories > Word
Bibliography
> Word
Salinger's
Time Magazine article (1961) > Word
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Links
to Other Selected Internet Sites
http://www.geocities.com/deadcaulfields/DCHome.html
http://www.salinger.org/
http://www.sophistic.org/
http://killdevilhill.com/salingerchat/wwwboard.html
http://www.collectedthoughts.com/oldsite/indices/source/franny_and_zooey.html
http://www.morrill.org/books/salbio.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/301077.stm
Thanks
to our sources on the WWW!