Salinger J. Biography

Disable on the page of Jerome D. was born on January 1 of the year in New York. His father is Solomon Salinger, a Jew of Lithuanian descent, a prosperous wholesale merchant of kosher smoked and cheeses. Mother, Miriam Salinger Mary Gillik,-Scottish-Irish descent. Doris, the only sister of Jerome, was eight years older than him and two months. Father sought to give his son a good education.

In the year, Jerome graduated from a military school in Valley-Ford, pcs. Here he composed his first stories. In the summer, in the year, Jerome listens to lectures at the University of New York, in years, together with his father, he goes to Austria and Poland here in the Bydgosho, he studies the production of sausages. Returning to his homeland, in the year he attend lectures at Ursinus College, pcs.

In the year, Salinger enters the Columbia University, where he listens to a course of lectures on a short story that the editor of Story magazine W. did not finish none of the higher educational institutions by Jerome, without showing any special successes or career aspirations, which caused his father’s discontent, with which he eventually quarreled. In the year, Salinger was drafted into the army, graduated from the officer-sergeant school of communications forces, in the year the sergeant was transferred to counterintelligence and sent to Nashville, pcs.

He worked with prisoners of war, took part in the release of several concentration camps. Salinger's writer's career began with the publication of short stories in New York magazines. The first serious fame of the Salinger brought a short story “Bananka fish is well caught” eleven years after the first publication, Salinger released his only novel “Above the Rye”, who met the friendly approval of criticism and still retains popularity among high school students and students who are in the views and behavior of the hero, Holden Collida, close Evables to your own moods.

The book was banned in several countries and some US states for depressive and use of swearing vocabulary, but now in many American schools it is included in the lists of literature recommended. In the years, the novels of Franny and Zui and the story “Above the rafters, carpenters” come out. The heroes of these stories-members of a highly intellectual, sophisticated vowel family-Salinger makes the guides of their ideas-the synthesis of Zen Buddhism, moderate mysticism, nihilism of battles and fat.

After the novel “Above the abyss in rye” gained popularity, Salinger began to lead the life of the recluse, refusing to give an interview. After a year, he stopped being printed, composing only for himself, imposed a ban on reprinting the early works before the story “The Bananka Fish is well caught” and stopped several attempts to publish his letters. In the last years of his life, he practically did not communicate with the outside world, living at a high fence in a mansion in the town of Kornish, pcs.

New Gampshire, and engaged in various spiritual practices, Buddhism, Hinduism, Yoga, Macrobiotics, Dianetics. Jerome David Salinger died a natural death in his house on January 27. Information about his death was provided by the writer's son, the information was also confirmed by his literary agent. Detailed biography.