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=The Life & Times of JD Salinger =




 * JD Salinger, his real name being Jerome David Salinger, was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York.
 * Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories in secondary school, publishing many stories in the early 1940s.
 * He served in World War II.


 * First published in the magazine entitled Story. His story was entitled “The Young Folks”
 * Enlisted in the army in 1942 and fought until the end of World War II
 * When he returned to the United States his story, “Slight Rebellion of Madison,” was published in the __New Yorker__


 * In 1951,__The Catcher and the Rye__ was published and sold in bookstores [[image:200px-Rye_catcher.jpg width="136" height="183"]]
 * The book quickly became a favorite amongst young people
 * The book has been banned in school in libraries because of the bad language, sexual subject matter, and rejection of typical American values
 * His next book was published in 1961. This book was entitled, __Franny and Zoey__


 * Salinger's book Catcher in the Rye sells about $250,000 a year and spent 30 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers and got numerous offers to make a movie out of it. He refused all of those offers. The book did not get any major awards.
 * After the success of Catcher in the Rye, Salinger publishes new work less frequently.
 * He published a series of books after along with many other books that never were quite as popular as Catcher in the Rye


 * J.D Salinger spend his late years of life keeping to himself from the public after publishing "The Catcher and the Rye." He lived in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire in his last years with his wife. Salinger recently passed on January 20th, 2010. At the time, he was 91 years old and died of natural causes. People have said that he had a very easy death. There has been rumors that books that have never been published and were written by him are locked away in his house in NH.