Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Ovid, 43 – 17
J. D. Salinger biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of J. D. Salinger

Author Name:

J. D. Salinger

Born As:

Jerome David Salinger

Other Names:

Born:

01 Jan 1919

Died:

27 Jan 2011




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Selected Works:

Novels:

The Catcher in the Rye - 1951
Nine Stories - 1953
A Perfect Day for Bananafish - 1948
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut - 1948
Just Before the War with the Eskimos - 1948
The Laughing Man - 1949
Down at the Dinghy - 1949
For Esmé – with Love and Squalor - 1950
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes - 1951
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period - 1952
Teddy - 1953

Franny and Zooey - 1961:
Franny - 1955
Zooey - 1957

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction - 1963
Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters - 1955
Seymour: An Introduction - 1959

Published and Anthologized Stories:

Go See Eddie - 1940, republished in Fiction: Form & Experience, editor - William M. Jones, 1969
The Hang of It - 1941, republished in The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1943
The Long Debut of Lois Taggett - 1942, republished in Stories: The Fiction of the Forties, editor - Whit Burnett, 1949
A Boy in France - 1945, republished in Post Stories 1942–45, editor - Ben Hibbs, 1946
This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise - 1945, republished in The Armchair Esquire, editor - L. Rust Hills, 1959
Slight Rebellion off Madison - 1946, republished in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, editor - David Remnick, 2000
A Girl I Knew - 1948, republished in Best American Short Stories 1949, editor - Martha Foley, 1949

Published and Unanthologized Stories:

The Young Folks - 1940
The Heart of a Broken Story - 1941
Personal Notes of an Infantryman - 1942
The Varioni Brothers - 1943
Both Parties Concerned - 1944
Soft-Boiled Sergeant - 1944
Last Day of the Last Furlough - 1944
Once a Week Won't Kill You - 1944
Elaine - 1945
The Stranger - 1945
I'm Crazy - 1945
A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All - 1947
The Inverted Forest - 1947
Blue Melody - 1948
Hapworth 16, 1924 - 1965

Unpublished Stories:

Mrs. Hincher - 1942
The Last and Best of the Peter Pans - 1942
The Lonely Men - 1944
The Magic Foxhole - 1944
Birthday Boy - 1946
The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls - 1947                          
Mother Marie Jillich
Father Sol Salinger, two children.
Wife Claire Douglas, two children.