J D Salinger on Wikipedia

(1919-2010)

Born in New York in 1919, J D Salinger is most renowned for his only published novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which came out in 1951. Nine Stories was published in the US in 1953, followed by Franny and Zooey in 1961 and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction in 1963, both of which comprise two linked novellas. Salinger died in New Hampshire in 2010 after more than fifty years of living in virtual seclusion.


Short Story Collections

Nine Stories
(Little, Brown, 1953)

reviewed by Sara Baume

                     
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