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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]
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.
"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945 [1] issue of Collier's magazine. [2] Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him".
In “Heart of a Broken Story” Salinger takes the measure of wishful fantasy as the basis for popular entertainment and —at a remarkably early point in his career —registers his uneasiness with formula fiction. This story constitutes his earliest attack on phony art.” —John Wenke in J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) [9]
"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 ...
“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 ...
"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" is an uncollected work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger which appeared in the October 1945 issue of Esquire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The story was published in the 1958 anthology The Armchair Esquire , edited by Arnold Gingrich and L. Rust Hills.