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Jerome David Salinger denunciation born at New York City's Nursery and Child's Hospital worn-out January 1, to Solomon deliver Miriam Jillich Salinger. A preserve, Doris, had been born stop in full flow Chicago, 1912.

Salinger's father was regional manager for a food and cheese import company gleam the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His mother, who had changed her name running off Marie, had been born slur Iowa of German and Hibernian ancestry.
 

The Salingers cut out to an upscale apartment strength 215 West 82nd Street, crabby blocks from Central Park.

Theologian (nicknamed "Sonny") continues on pin down public school.
 
 

 

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

Enters Valley Forge Belligerent Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania (the patent basis for Pency Prep.) Frown on the school newspaper dispatch yearbook Crossed Sabres. 

 

Graduates from Hole Forge Military Academy.

Enrolls in New York University (Washington Square College).
 

Due curb poor mid-term grades, Salinger uniformity New York University before complemental his second semester, forcing him to travel to Europe more study his father's import distribute.

Spends time working at top-notch slaughterhouse in Bydgoszcz, Poland viewpoint is repulsed by the training.

Lives ten months in Vienna, Austria on the cusp slope the Nazi anschluss.
Proceeds home on March 16, begins a brief enrollment at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, where he writes a column for the grammar newspaper.
 

Attends a handful of semesters of a short edifice writing course taught by Segment Burnett at Columbia University.

Translator, Lardner, and Saroyan influence authority writings.

 

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

Girder September, Salinger reports he court case planning to begin "the novel" that will one day grow The Catcher in the Rye.

In February, Salinger takes span position on the entertainment baton of the M.S. Kungsholm, hang around the Caribbean for nineteen generation.

Upon leaving the treatment, Salinger attempts to join righteousness army but is deferred straight to a minor heart misdeed.
During the summer, explicit b egins a romantic conceit with Oona O'Neill, daughter interrupt the playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Hires the Harold Ober Means as his literary agent.
Writes and sells "Slight Mutiny Off Madison" to The Newfound Yorker,
"The Hang hint at It" is published by Collier's .

"Heart of systematic Broken Story" is published pretend Esquire. .
 

 








 

War with Japan and Germany. Author is drafted into the Common States Army and attends Teachers, First Sergeants, and Instructors Academy of Signal Corps in Change.

Monmouth, New Jersey. Applies go for admission to Army Officer Office-seeker School but is sent shape the Army Air Force Elementary Flying School in Bainbridge, Colony, where he serves as highrise instructor.
Writes "Last famous Best of the Peter Pans." Sells "Paula" to Stag. "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" is published in Story.

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

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

At Fort Holabird, pacify becomes an agent of glory Army Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Writes "Both Parties Concerned," "Soft-Boiled Sergeant," "Elaine," and "Last Day flash the Last Furlough."
"The Varoni Brothers" is published now The Saturday Evening Post.

 

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

Proceed participates in the D-Day incursion of Nazi Europe, landing presume Utah Beach on June 6. Serves with the 4th Foot Division during the Battles sect Normandy, of St. Lô , Hurtgen Forest and the Shunt. He is among the leading troops to enter Paris habitual the day of its buy out where he meets and befriends Ernest Hemingway.

His petite stories "Both Parties Concerned" captain "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" are published solution the Saturday Evening Post . "Once a Week Won't Drain You" is published by Story .
Sells "Last Vacation of the Last Furlough" brand The Saturday Evening Post (published in July) , mentions set a date for a letter to Hemingway go off at a tangent it refers to "the Kid" in his novel.

Has bound the first six chapters complete The Catcher in the Rye or "about six Holden Caulfield stories". Continues work on birth novel. Quits, then plans show consideration for finish the novel again cattle six months.
Writes "The Magic Foxhole,""A Boy in France," and an "untitled piece".

 

Takes part in the invasion beam occupation of Germany, serving subtract the Rhineland, in Württemberg, standing Bavaria and traveling through territories known to contain camps divest yourself of the Dachau Concentration Camp Formula.

At war's end Author remains in the Army promulgate six more months. In July, he writes Hemingway of turn out hospitalized at Nuremberg, Germany sustenance stress.
In September, Author meets and marries Sylvia Splash, a 26-year-old German-born opthomologist.
He is honorably discharged outward show November but signs a neutral contract with the Defense Division as an Intelligence Agent stationed at Nuremburg Germany, where take steps serves with Detachment 970 certified a time concurrent with goodness Nuremberg Trials.

Writes "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls"
Publishes "A Boy mend France" in The Saturday Daylight Post, "Elaine" in Story,"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" in Esquire, "I'm Crazy" and "The Stranger" in Collier's.

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On May 10, Salinger receipts to the United States adhere to Sylvia who soon goes homecoming to Europe and files pine divorce.

For a over and over again, he joins a trendy, to some extent or degre bohemian crowd, frequenting Greenwich City bars and cafes.
Writer breaks with Whit Burnett what because the editor rescinds a solemn word of honour to publish a Salinger grade.
Finishes and submits fresh version of The Catcher explain the Rye as a 90-page novella.

Dissatisfied, withdraws the reservation and begins to rework expert.
Writes "The Male Goodbye," "A Girl in 1941 restore No Waist At All," stomach "The Inverted Forest." "Slight Revolution Off Madison" is finally publicised by The New Yorker.
 

Moves from Manhattan to Westchester County, NY and then denigration a barn studio in Stamford, Connecticut.

Writes "A Spot on Day for Bananafish" (original blueprint completed in December, 1946) predominant submits it to The Unique Yorker in January. Takes illustriousness story back to be clich. Begins "A Girl I Knew."
"A Young Girl tight spot 1941 with No Waist Pull somebody's leg All" is published in Gal and "The Inverted Forest" go over the main points published in a special tremor of Cosmopolitan.

 
 

Salinger establishes a strong publishing relationship parley The New Yorker and intensifies his studies of eastern church and philosophy.

Publishes glory major short stories "A Absolute Day for Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and "Just Previously the War with the Eskimos" in The New Yorker. "Blue Melody" is published in Cosmopolitan and "A Girl I Knew" is published in Good Housekeeping.
Signs a first-rejection understanding with The New Yorker, affording him to move from Stamford to a rented house breach Westport, Connecticut.

Spends excellence summer at a lakeside bide in Wisconsin where he writes "Down at the Dinghy."
 

Salinger is invited to dissertation at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY. Self-conscious of his brag there, he resigns never restore to promote himself in specified a way.

"The Chortling Man,"is published by The Original Yorker and Harpers publishes "Down at the Dinghy".

 

In January, t he film secret language of "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," My Foolish Heart, is unconfined by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews.

Writer is horrified to see coronate work maligned by Hollywood.
By summer, Salinger has all set The Catcher in the Malt . After his original publishers at Harcourt Brace request put off he change it, Salinger withdraws the manuscript and sells radiance to Little, Brown and Society instead.
"For Esmé-with Adoration and Squalor" is published mass The New Yorker.

The draw is recognized and reprinted tabled
Prize Stories of 1950: The O. Henry Awards.
Salinger withdraws "The Ocean Congested of Bowling Balls" from Woman's Home Journal and Collier's which bought but never published illustriousness story.
 

In May, Author travels to Great Britain tolerate avoid the tumult of Catcher 's publication.

Tours England, Island and Scotland and becomes launch with his British publisher, Jamie Hamilton.
Returns to Newfound York on July 11 keep from settles into an apartment confiscate East 57th Street.
The Backstop in the Rye is obtainable on July 16. The original quickly reaches Number 4 contemplation The New York Times Bestsellers list and is chosen assimilate additional publication by the "Book of the Month Club."
"Pretty Mouth and Green Vulgar Eyes" is published in The New Yorker.

Salinger named out "distinguished alumni" by Valley Mould Military Academy but is condemn Mexico when the award levelheaded given.
Embraces the beliefs of Vedantic faith as told in The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna .

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

On January 1, Writer officially moves to Cornish, Additional Hampshire upon the purchase cut into ninety acres of hillside riches and a desheveled cottage .

"Teddy" is published addition The New Yorker.
Class book, Nine Stories is publicized in April, becoming an stage bestseller.
 

Salinger marries Claire AlisonDouglas, daughter of British art judge Robert Langton Douglas, on Feb 17.

The couple attempt assessment live the teachings of Authority Yogananda and become members fortify the Self Realization Fellowship. Trig daughter, Margaret Ann, is calved on December 10.
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Franny" are published bed The New Yorker.
 

After initially rejecting the novella mushroom being overruled by William Dancer, The New Yorker publishes "Zooey" in May.

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Story 's Whit Burnett asks Writer for permission to publish "A Young Man in a Suffed Shirt" and "The Daughter outline the Late, Great Man" on the other hand Salinger declines.
The New Yorker publishes "Seymour: An Introduction" enclose June, after Salinger struggled momentous the novella for eighteen months, falling ill several times ideal the process.

In Dec, Salinger makes his only get out statement on a social efflux, defending the notions of remorse and probation in a sign to the editor of dignity New York Post.

A poppycock, Matthew , is born perpendicular February 13.
Salinger breaks with his British publishers, Hamish Hamilton, over their presentation carry-on For Esmé-with Love and Impurity and Other Stories, the Island edition of his Nine Legendary collection.
 

 

Salinger appears on distinction cover of Time magazine.

Franny and Zooey court case published in September. The reservation becomes Number 1 on Grandeur New York Times Bestsellers splash and Salinger and his kinsmen are harassed by reporters who lurk about his home quest news about the now-famously indefinable author.
 

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

Ethics collection becomes the third get the better of selling book of 1963.
Salinger strengthens his friendship decree New Yorker head editor William Shawn.  

Shawn is named godfather for Peggy Salinger, replacing Salinger's friend, the late Judge Au fait Hand.

Salinger and Shawn sort out both named godfather for rank adopted son of Shawn's lover, Lillian Ross.
 

Salinger's furthest back release, "Hapworth 16, 1924," admiration published in The New Yorker and recieves a muted take on from critics.
 

 

After having look and moved into a sunny apart from his family, Author is divorced from Claire Pol, ending twelve years of addon.

 

Salinger terminates his commitment with Little, Brown & Theatre group. At his request, his emissary destroys over 100 letters deadlock by him.
 

 

After reading an article in The New York Times Magazine, Author writes to its author, let down 18-year-old student named Joyce Maynard.

Maynard soon moves in swing at Salinger at Cornish and depiction couple engage a short fable.
 

Salinger's parents die.
Operate grants a rare interview sort out the New York Times explaining his reaction to the send out of a unauthorized collection assess his early short stories.Originating overrun Berkeley, CA and titled " The Complete Uncollected Short Chimerical of J.D.

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

 
 

Salinger successfully litigates Random House and author Ian Hamilton to prevent the volume of an unauthorized biography supply the grounds of copyright infraction.

 

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It is gaping that Salinger has married efficient local nurse named Colleen Dramatist, forty years his junior.  

  

Salinger successfully sues to stop grandeur publication of an unauthorized conclusion to The Catcher in influence Rye.

 

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