American author (1919–2010)
He wrote one novel about a teenager who hated phonies, then spent five decades hiding from everyone who wanted to talk about it.
Jerome David Salinger published short stories in Story magazine in 1940, served in World War II, then broke through in 1948 when The New Yorker ran "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." The Catcher in the Rye arrived in 1951 and became an immediate popular success — its portrait of adolescent alienation hit especially hard with adolescent readers — but the scrutiny that followed drove Salinger into seclusion. He published three more books through 1963: Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, all drawing from the same vein. His last publi…
Sourced, dated quotes from J. D. Salinger
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write.
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in The Catcher in the Rye. Some of my best friends are children.
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing — perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
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