J. D. Salinger J. D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger (; January 1, 1919 January 27, 2010) was an American writer known for his widely read novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". Following his early success publishing short stories and "The Catcher in the Rye", Salinger led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in "Story" magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II. In
Salinger (book) be more fun if it had an index, so that the dopey parts could be skipped." He concluded, ""Salinger" also never comes together as a story for readers" and suggested that "the raw material in "Salinger" will need to be digested by yet another biographer... We have waited so long to understand J. D. Salinger. We must wait longer." In "The New York Times", Michiko Kakutani thought that the authors had done "an energetic job of finding sources and persuading them to talk" but the books's "Internet-age narrative" and "sloppy scholarship," made it "a sprawling, cut-and-paste collage." Writing in "London