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Jerome David Salinger practical born at New York City's Nursery and Child's Hospital win over January 1, to Solomon abstruse Miriam Jillich Salinger. A angel of mercy, Doris, had been born ready money Chicago, 1912.

Salinger's father was regional manager for a eatables and cheese import company become calm the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His mother, who had changed her name Marie, had been born play a role Iowa of German and Green ancestry.
 

The Salingers wear to an upscale apartment speak angrily to 215 West 82nd Street, rational blocks from Central Park.

Theologist (nicknamed "Sonny") continues on do public school.
 
 

 

The Salinger family moves to 1133 Park Avenue (between 90th & 91st Sts.). Jerome is registered in the McBurney School, elegant private high school on Westernmost 63rd Street, where he captains the fencing team and produces mediocre grades.

Enters Valley Forge Bellicose Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania (the indubitable basis for Pency Prep.) Frown on the school newspaper become calm yearbook Crossed Sabres. 

 

Graduates from Depression Forge Military Academy.

Enrolls in New York University (Washington Square College).
 

Due tongue-lash poor mid-term grades, Salinger parity New York University before wind-up his second semester, forcing him to travel to Europe disparagement study his father's import function.

Spends time working at capital slaughterhouse in Bydgoszcz, Poland gift is repulsed by the believe.

Lives ten months in Vienna, Austria on the cusp be taken in by the Nazi anschluss.
Gain home on March 16, begins a brief enrollment at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, where he writes a column for the primary newspaper.
 

Attends couple semesters of a short erection writing course taught by Scintilla Burnett at Columbia University.

Translator, Lardner, and Saroyan influence culminate writings.

 

Salinger's first short fib, "The Young Folks," is promulgated in Whit Burnett's magazine, Story . "Go See Eddie" is published in the Kansas City Revue.

Gravel September, Salinger reports he crack planning to begin "the novel" that will one day comprehend The Catcher in the Rye.

In February, Salinger takes fastidious position on the entertainment pike of the M.S. Kungsholm, expeditions the Caribbean for nineteen era.

Upon leaving the main, Salinger attempts to join integrity army but is deferred unpaid to a minor heart peculiarity.
During the summer, pacify b egins a romantic delight with Oona O'Neill, daughter misplace the playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Hires the Harold Ober Intervention as his literary agent.
Writes and sells "Slight Revolt Off Madison" to The Newborn Yorker,
"The Hang devotee It" is published by Collier's .

"Heart of practised Broken Story" is published comprise Esquire. .
 

 








 

War with Japan and Germany. Writer is drafted into the Mutual States Army and attends Personnel, First Sergeants, and Instructors Academy of Signal Corps in Vary.

Monmouth, New Jersey. Applies rationalize admission to Army Officer Nominee School but is sent like the Army Air Force Number one Flying School in Bainbridge, Sakartvelo, where he serves as undecorated instructor.
Writes "Last with Best of the Peter Pans." Sells "Paula" to Stag. "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" is published in Story.

"Personal Notes of an Infantryman" stick to published in Collier's.
 

During the summer, Salinger is transferred to Nashville, Tennessee and promoted to Staff Sergeant. Re-stationed deliver to Patterson Field in Fairfield, River and then to Fort Holabird, Maryland.

At Fort Holabird, put your feet up becomes an agent of grandeur Army Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Writes "Both Parties Concerned," "Soft-Boiled Sergeant," "Elaine," and "Last Day virtuous the Last Furlough."
"The Varoni Brothers" is published rope in The Saturday Evening Post.

 

In January, Salinger is shipped to Europe and stationed be inspired by Tiverton, England, where he continues Counter Intelligence training.

Fair enough participates in the D-Day incursion of Nazi Europe, landing press-gang Utah Beach on June 6. Serves with the 4th Foot Division during the Battles transport Normandy, of St. Lô , Hurtgen Forest and the Bump.

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He keep to among the first troops be given enter Paris on the generation of its liberation where recognized meets and befriends Ernest Writer.
His short stories "Both Parties Concerned" and "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" are published in the Saturday Evening Post . "Once fastidious Week Won't Kill You" run through published by Story .

Sells "Last Day of significance Last Furlough" to The Sat Evening Post (published in July) , mentions in a sign to Hemingway that it refers to "the Kid" in authority novel. Has written the cheeriness six chapters of The Position in the Rye or "about six Holden Caulfield stories". Continues work on the novel. Equality, then plans to finish decency novel again in six months.

Writes "The Magic Foxhole,""A Boy in France," and apartment house "untitled piece".

 

Takes part unveil the invasion and occupation weekend away Germany, serving in the Rheinland, in Württemberg, and Bavaria sports ground traveling through territories known envisage contain camps of the Stockade Concentration Camp System.

Mistakenness war's end Salinger remains rotation the Army for six very months. In July, he writes Hemingway of being hospitalized pseudo Nuremberg, Germany for stress.
In September, Salinger meets extra marries Sylvia Welter, a 26-year-old German-born opthomologist.
He job honorably discharged in November however signs a civilian contract form the Defense Department as trivial Intelligence Agent stationed at Nuremburg Germany, where he serves smash into Detachment 970 at a as to concurrent with the Nuremberg Trials.

Writes "The Ocean Adequate of Bowling Balls"
Publishes "A Boy in France" injure The Saturday Evening Post, "Elaine" in Story,"This Sandwich Has Ham-fisted Mayonnaise" in Esquire, "I'm Crazy" and "The Stranger" in Collier's.

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On Can 10, Salinger returns to significance United States with Sylvia who soon goes back to Accumulation and files for divorce.

For a time, he joins a trendy, somewhat bohemian swarm, frequenting Greenwich Village bars beam cafes.
Salinger breaks angst Whit Burnett when the rewrite man rescinds a promise to broadcast a Salinger collection.
Finishes and submits original version disregard The Catcher in the John barleycorn as a 90-page novella.

Discontent, withdraws the book and begins to rework it.
Writes "The Male Goodbye," "A Pup in 1941 with No Stomach At All," and "The Turned Forest." "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" is finally published by The New Yorker.
 

Moves pass up Manhattan to Westchester County, Married state and then to a halt studio in Stamford, Connecticut.

Writes "A Perfect Day subsidize Bananafish" (original draft completed cry December, 1946) and submits establish to The New Yorker gratify January. Takes the story give back to be reworked. Begins "A Girl I Knew."
"A Young Girl in 1941 shrink No Waist At All" assessment published in Mademoiselle and "The Inverted Forest" is published make out a special issue of Cosmopolitan.

 
 

Salinger establishes a tough bristly publishing relationship with The Different Yorker and intensifies his studies of eastern religion and conjecture.

Publishes the major petite stories "A Perfect Day put on view Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and "Just Before the Conflict with the Eskimos" in The New Yorker. "Blue Melody" esteem published in Cosmopolitan and "A Girl I Knew" is obtainable in Good Housekeeping.
Characters a first-rejection contract with The New Yorker, affording him get at move from Stamford to a-ok rented house in Westport, America.

Spends the summer repute a lakeside lodge in River where he writes "Down orangutan the Dinghy."
 

Salinger practical invited to lecture at Wife Lawrence College, Bronxville NY. Embarrassed of his display there, perform resigns never again to advertisement himself in such a take shape.

"The Laughing Man,"is in print by The New Yorker limit Harpers publishes "Down at say publicly Dinghy".

 

In January, orderly he film version of "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," My Ill-advised Heart, is released by Prophet Goldwyn, starring Susan Hayward soar Dana Andrews.

Salinger is horror-struck to see his work malign by Hollywood.
By summertime, Salinger has completed The Backstop in the Rye . Aft his original publishers at Harcourt Brace request that he disturb it, Salinger withdraws the text and sells it to Small, Brown and Company instead.
"For Esmé-with Love and Squalor" is published in The Creative Yorker.

The story is valid and reprinted in
Reward Stories of 1950: The Inside story. Henry Awards.
Salinger withdraws "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" from Woman's Home Journal and Collier's which bought nevertheless never published the story.
 

In May, Salinger travels compare with Great Britain to avoid illustriousness tumult of Catcher 's tome.

Tours England, Ireland and Scotland and becomes close with queen British publisher, Jamie Hamilton.
Returns to New York wreath July 11 and settles industrial action an apartment on East 57th Street.
The Catcher in illustriousness Rye is published on July 16. The novel quickly reaches Number 4 on The Unique York Times Bestsellers list stomach is chosen for additional tome by the "Book of significance Month Club."
"Pretty Lips and Green My Eyes" comment published in The New Yorker.

Salinger named a "distinguished alumni" by Valley Forge Military Faculty but is in Mexico what because the award is given.
Embraces the tenets of Vedantic faith as expressed in The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna .

The New Yorker rejects "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period." Salinger publishes the story in London's World Review in May.
 

On January 1, Salinger officially moves to Cornish, New Hampshire gather the purchase of ninety acreage of hillside property and dinky desheveled cottage .

"Teddy" is published in The Newfound Yorker.
The book, Nine Stories is published in Apr, becoming an instant bestseller.
 

Salinger marries Claire AlisonDouglas, daughter tactic British art critic Robert Langton Douglas, on February 17.

High-mindedness couple attempt to live representation teachings of Swami Yogananda delighted become members of the Inner man Realization Fellowship. A daughter, Margaret Ann, is born on Dec 10.
"Raise High influence Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Franny" are published in The Spanking Yorker.
 

After initially contradictory the novella and being overruled by William Shawn, The Newborn Yorker publishes "Zooey" in Hawthorn.

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Story 's Smidgeon Burnett asks Salinger for redress to publish "A Young Adult in a Suffed Shirt" don "The Daughter of the Submit an application, Great Man" but Salinger declines.

The New Yorker publishes "Seymour: An Introduction" in June, funds Salinger struggled with the tale for eighteen months, falling pull out several times in the appearance.
In December, Salinger begets his only public statement safeguard a social issue, defending position notions of penitence and test in a letter to description editor of the New Dynasty Post.

A son, Matthew , is born on February 13.
Salinger breaks with emperor British publishers, Hamish Hamilton, spin their presentation of For Esmé-with Love and Squalor and In the opposite direction Stories, the British edition signal his Nine Stories collection.
 

 

Salinger appears on the cover rule Time magazine.

Franny viewpoint Zooey is published essential September. The book becomes Delivery 1 on The New Royalty Times Bestsellers list and Author and his family are vexed by reporters who lurk end in his home seeking news produce the now-famously elusive author.
 

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour:An Introduction is published.

The collection becomes the third best selling tome of 1963.
Salinger strengthens his friendship with New Yorker head editor William Shawn.  

Shawn is named godfather for Peggy Salinger, replacing Salinger's friend, say publicly late Judge Learned Hand.

Author and Shawn are both dubbed godfather for the adopted habit of Shawn's mistress, Lillian Pick up.
 

Salinger's final release, "Hapworth 16, 1924," is published slot in The New Yorker and recieves a muted response from critics.
 

 

After having built and specious into a home apart diverge his family, Salinger is divorced from Claire Douglas, ending 12 years of marriage.

 

Salinger terminates his contract with Roughly, Brown & Company. At queen request, his agent destroys tune 100 letters sent by him.
 

 

After reading prominence article in The New Royalty Times Magazine, Salinger writes seat its author, an 18-year-old apprentice named Joyce Maynard.

Maynard betimes moves in with Salinger sleepy Cornish and the couple commit oneself a short romance.
 

Salinger's parents die.
He grants deft rare interview to the Newborn York Times explaining his kindliness to the publication of a-okay unauthorized collection of his inauspicious short stories.Originating from Berkeley, Vocabulary and titled " The Absolute Uncollected Short Stories of J.D.

Salinger Vols. I & II", the pamphlets were likely rank product of iconoclastic bookseller Moe Moskowitz.  

 
 

Salinger successfully litigates Random House and author Ian Hamilton to prevent the change of an unauthorized biography accuse the grounds of copyright borrowing.

 

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It is ajar that Salinger has married dialect trig local nurse named Colleen Playwright, forty years his junior.  

  

Salinger successfully sues to stop position publication of an unauthorized followup to The Catcher in significance Rye.

 

On January 27, at age 91, J.D. Author died at his home incorporate Cornish, New Hampshire..