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Where Salinger grew up, 1133 Park Avenue in Manhattan. Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York, on January 1, 1919. [5] His father, Sol Salinger, traded in Kosher cheese, and was from a family of Lithuanian-Jewish descent from Russian Empire. [6]
Author Eberhard Alsen, in A Reader’s Guide to J.D Salinger, observes that the stories evolve chronologically. They change in a way that mirrors Salinger's personal life and his experiences with religion. [13] Many scholars and critics have analyzed and reviewed the character of Seymour Glass in regard to his wartime experiences and suicide.
In spring 1972, Maynard and Salinger exchanged letters during her freshman year at Yale. By July, Maynard had given up her summer job writing for The New York Times to move in with Salinger in Cornish, New Hampshire. [8] [2] Salinger and his wife had divorced in 1967. By September 1972, Maynard had given up her scholarship to Yale and dropped out.
First published in 1940, "Go See Eddie" is one of J. D. Salinger's first short stories. [18] Initially submitted to Story magazine and then to Esquire before being accepted by The University of Kansas City Review, now known as New Letters, this short story was forgotten for decades, before being uncovered in 1963 by Salinger's biographer Warren French.
“Go See Eddie” is one of a number of Salinger’s uncollected stories that deals with “characters who become involved in degrading, often phony social contexts.” [8] An examination of “social manners [and] the corruption of innocence” [9] [10] the story, “though slight in range, foreshadows Salinger’s more searching explorations of innocence either threatened or lost ...
"Slight Rebellion off Madison" is an uncollected work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger which appeared in the 21 December 1946 issue of The New Yorker. [1] The story is the first of nine stories to feature Salinger’s iconic protagonist Holden Morrisey Caulfield and the Caulfield family. [2] [3]
“Unlike many soldiers who had been impatient for the D-Day invasion, Salinger was far from naive (with dots) about war.In stories like ‘Soft-boiled Sergeant” and ‘Last Day of the Last Furlough” he had already expressed disgust with the false idealism applied to combat and attempted to explain that war was a bloody, inglorious affair…” —Biographer Kenneth Slawenski in J. D ...
Though none of Salinger's correspondence reveals the precise evolution of the story, "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" was completed in late 1944 when Salinger was serving with US Army units fighting the Schnee Eifel and Hürtgen Forest. Biographer Kenneth Slawenski speculates on how this reality may have affected Salinger's handling of the story: