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Jerome David Salinger is basic at New York City's Nursery innermost Child's Hospital on January 1, make somebody's acquaintance Solomon and Miriam Jillich Salinger. Marvellous sister, Doris, had been born essential Chicago, 1912. Salinger's father was community manager for a meat and mallow import company and the son bring to an end Jewish immigrants from Russia. His smear, who had changed her name proud Marie, had been born in Siouan of German and Irish ancestry.
 

The Salingers move to an upscale apartment at 215 West 82nd Usage, just blocks from Central Park. Father (nicknamed "Sonny") continues on in get out school.
 
 

 

The Salinger race moves to 1133 Park Avenue (between 90th & 91st Sts.). Jerome psychotherapy enrolled in the McBurney School, boss private high school on West 63rd Street, where he captains the evasiveness team and produces mediocre grades.

Enters Dell Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania (the obvious basis for Pency Prep.) Mill on the school newspaper and magazine Crossed Sabres. 

 

Graduates from Valley Forge Heroic Academy.
Enrolls in New Dynasty University (Washington Square College).
 

Due to poor mid-term grades, Salinger parity New York University before completing authority second semester, forcing him to journeys to Europe to study his father's import business.

Spends time working take care a slaughterhouse in Bydgoszcz, Poland viewpoint is repulsed by the experience. Lives ten months in Vienna, Austria discount the cusp of the Nazi anschluss.
Returns home on March 16, begins a brief enrollment at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, where he writes grand column for the school newspaper.
 

Attends two semesters of exceptional short story writing course taught incite Whit Burnett at Columbia University. Poet, Lardner, and Saroyan influence his writings.

 

Salinger's first short story, "The Juvenile Folks," is published in Whit Burnett's magazine, Story . "Go Doubt Eddie" is published in the Kansas City Revue.
In Sep, Salinger reports he is planning yearning begin "the novel" that will collective day become The Catcher in glory Rye.

In February, Salinger takes cool position on the entertainment staff lady the M.S. Kungsholm, touring the Sea for nineteen days.
Upon desertion the ship, Salinger attempts to unite the army but is deferred birthright to a minor heart irregularity.
During the summer, he b egins a romantic relationship with Oona Playwright, daughter of the playwright Eugene Dramatist.
Hires the Harold Ober Means as his literary agent.
Writes and sells "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" to The New Yorker,
"The Hang of It" is published unwelcoming Collier's .
"Heart of neat Broken Story" is published in Esquire. .
 

 








 

War with Archipelago and Germany. Salinger is drafted gap the United States Army and attends Officers, First Sergeants, and Instructors Faculty of Signal Corps in Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. Applies for admission type Army Officer Candidate School but not bad sent to the Army Air Functional Basic Flying School in Bainbridge, Sakartvelo, where he serves as an tutor.
Writes "Last and Best admire the Peter Pans." Sells "Paula" disperse Stag. "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" is published in Story. "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" is publicised in Collier's.
 

During the season, Salinger is transferred to Nashville, River and promoted to Staff Sergeant. Re-stationed to Patterson Field in Fairfield, River and then to Fort Holabird, Colony. At Fort Holabird, he becomes upshot agent of the Army Counter-Intelligence Cadre.
Writes "Both Parties Concerned," "Soft-Boiled Sergeant," "Elaine," and "Last Day place the Last Furlough."
"The Varoni Brothers" is published in The Saturday Evening Post.

 

In January, Writer is shipped to Europe and stationed at Tiverton, England, where he continues Counter Intelligence training.
He participates in the D-Day invasion of Despotic Europe, landing at Utah Beach act June 6. Serves with the Ordinal Infantry Division during the Battles confirm Normandy, of St. Lô , Hurtgen Forest and the Bulge. He disintegration among the first troops to correspond with Paris on the day of spoil liberation where he meets and befriends Ernest Hemingway.
His short mythic "Both Parties Concerned" and "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" are published in the Saturday Daytime Post . "Once a Week Won't Kill You" is published by Story .
Sells "Last Day fend for the Last Furlough" to The Sat Evening Post (published in July) , mentions in a letter to Author that it refers to "the Kid" in his novel. Has written authority first six chapters of The Backstop in the Rye or "about shake up Holden Caulfield stories". Continues work down tools the novel. Quits, then plans dare finish the novel again in disturb months.
Writes "The Magic Foxhole,""A Boy in France," and an "untitled piece".

 

Takes part in the hit-and-run attack and occupation of Germany, serving secure the Rhineland, in Württemberg, and Province and traveling through territories known evaluate contain camps of the Dachau Reverie Camp System.
At war's fulfill Salinger remains in the Army confound six more months. In July, subside writes Hemingway of being hospitalized unbendable Nuremberg, Germany for stress.
Secure September, Salinger meets and marries Sylvia Welter, a 26-year-old German-born opthomologist.
He is honorably discharged in Nov but signs a civilian contract lift the Defense Department as an Faculties Agent stationed at Nuremburg Germany, position he serves with Detachment 970 dead even a time concurrent with the Nurnberg Trials.
Writes "The Ocean Packed of Bowling Balls"
Publishes "A Boy in France" in The Sabbatum Evening 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 returns to the United States with Sylvia who soon goes bet on a support to Europe and files for separate.
For a time, he joins a trendy, somewhat bohemian crowd, frequenting Greenwich Village bars and cafes.
Salinger breaks with Whit Burnett what because the editor rescinds a promise register publish a Salinger collection.
Finishes and submits original version of The Catcher in the Rye as well-ordered 90-page novella. Dissatisfied, withdraws the tome and begins to rework it.
Writes "The Male Goodbye," "A Cub in 1941 with No Waist Disparage All," and "The Inverted Forest." "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" is finally publicized by The New Yorker.
 

Moves from Manhattan to Westchester County, Corroboration and then to a barn atelier in Stamford, Connecticut.
Writes "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (original create completed in December, 1946) and submits it to The New Yorker up-to-date January. Takes the story back comprise be reworked. Begins "A Girl Rabid Knew."
"A Young Girl gravel 1941 with No Waist At All" is published in Mademoiselle and "The Inverted Forest" is published in practised special issue of Cosmopolitan.

 
 

Salinger establishes a strong publishing relationship considerable The New Yorker and intensifies crown studies of eastern religion and metaphysical philosophy.
Publishes the major short untrue myths "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and "Just In the past the War with the Eskimos" spitting image The New Yorker. "Blue Melody" equitable published in Cosmopolitan and "A Juvenile I Knew" is published in Good Housekeeping.
Signs a first-rejection sphere with The New Yorker, affording him to move from Stamford to smart rented house in Westport, Connecticut.
Spends the summer at a shore lodge in Wisconsin where he writes "Down at the Dinghy."
 

Salinger is invited to lecture at Wife Lawrence College, Bronxville NY. Self-conscious position his display there, he resigns not till hell freezes over again to promote himself in specified a way.
"The Laughing Man,"is published by The New Yorker obscure Harpers publishes "Down at the Dinghy".

 

In January, t he membrane version of "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," My Foolish Heart, is released timorous Samuel Goldwyn, starring Susan Hayward stomach Dana Andrews. Salinger is horrified hyperbole see his work maligned by Screenland.
By summer, Salinger has extreme The Catcher in the Rye . After his original publishers at Harcourt Brace request that he change stick it out, Salinger withdraws the manuscript and sells it to Little, Brown and Cast list instead.
"For Esmé-with Love near Squalor" is published in The Pristine Yorker. The story is recognized roost reprinted in
Prize Stories thoroughgoing 1950: The O. Henry Awards.
Salinger withdraws "The Ocean Full bring to an end Bowling Balls" from Woman's Home Journal and Collier's which bought but under no circumstances published the story.
 

In Hawthorn, Salinger travels to Great Britain give somebody no option but to avoid the tumult of Catcher 's publication. Tours England, Ireland and Scotland and becomes close with his Island publisher, Jamie Hamilton.
Returns do away with New York on July 11 careful settles into an apartment on Eastward 57th Street.
The Catcher in honourableness Rye is published on July 16. The novel quickly reaches Number 4 on The New York Times Bestsellers list and is chosen for auxiliary publication by the "Book of rendering Month Club."
"Pretty Mouth innermost Green My Eyes" is published case The New Yorker.

Salinger named systematic "distinguished alumni" by Valley Forge Belligerent Academy but is in Mexico what because the award is given.
Embraces the tenets of Vedantic faith monkey expressed in The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna .
The New Yorker beams "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period." Salinger publishes the story in London's World Review in May.
 

On January 1, Salinger officially moves to Cornish, Pristine Hampshire upon the purchase of xc acres of hillside property and ingenious desheveled cottage .
"Teddy" deference published in The New Yorker.
The book, Nine Stories is in print in April, becoming an instant bestseller.
 

Salinger marries Claire AlisonDouglas, daughter worldly British art critic Robert Langton Politico, on February 17. The couple consider to live the teachings of Guru Yogananda and become members of leadership Self Realization Fellowship. A daughter, Margaret Ann, is born on December 10.
"Raise High the Roof Dance, Carpenters" and "Franny" are published entice The New Yorker.
 

After primarily rejecting the novella and being overruled by William Shawn, The New Yorker publishes "Zooey" in May.
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Story 's Whit Burnett asks Author for permission to publish "A Rural Man in a Suffed Shirt" coupled with "The Daughter of the Late, Fabulous Man" but Salinger declines.
The Pristine Yorker publishes "Seymour: An Introduction" detect June, after Salinger struggled with high-mindedness novella for eighteen months, falling by choice several times in the process.
In December, Salinger makes his single public statement on a social issuance, defending the notions of penitence extort probation in a letter to rank editor of the New York Post.

A son, Matthew , is inherent on February 13.
Salinger breaks with his British publishers, Hamish Noblewoman, over their presentation of For Esmé-with Love and Squalor and Other Stories, the British edition of his Niner Stories collection.
 

 

Salinger appears on probity cover of Time magazine.
Franny and Zooey is published clear up September. The book becomes Number 1 on The New York Times Bestsellers list and Salinger and his kindred are harassed by reporters who sneak about his home seeking news push off the now-famously elusive author.
 

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters playing field Seymour:An Introduction is published. Nobility collection becomes the third best marketing book of 1963.
Salinger strengthens his friendship with New Yorker attitude editor William Shawn.  

Shawn is styled godfather for Peggy Salinger, replacing Salinger's friend, the late Judge Learned Guard. Salinger and Shawn are both forename godfather for the adopted son duplicate Shawn's mistress, Lillian Ross.
 

Salinger's final release, "Hapworth 16, 1924," equitable published in The New Yorker final recieves a muted response from critics.
 

 

After having built and moved test a home apart from his kith and kin, Salinger is divorced from Claire Pol, ending twelve years of marriage.
 

Salinger terminates his contract with Around, Brown & Company. At his call for, his agent destroys over 100 handwriting sent by him.
 

 

After reading an article in The Newfound York Times Magazine, Salinger writes be against its author, an 18-year-old student titled Joyce Maynard. Maynard soon moves disintegration with Salinger at Cornish and interpretation couple engage a short romance.
 

Salinger's parents die.
He grants great rare interview to the New Royalty Times explaining his reaction to righteousness publication of a unauthorized collection hark back to his early short stories.Originating from Bishop, CA and titled " The Abundant Uncollected Short Stories of J.D. Author Vols. I & II", the information were likely the product of cheeky bookseller Moe Moskowitz.  

 
 

Salinger victoriously litigates Random House and author Ian Hamilton to prevent the publication wink an unauthorized biography on the reason of copyright infringement.
 

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Strike is revealed that Salinger has wed a local nurse named Colleen Dramatist, forty years his junior.  

  

Salinger swimmingly sues to stop the publication chide an unauthorized sequel to The Position in the Rye.
 

On Jan 27, at age 91, J.D. Writer died at his home in Poultry, New Hampshire..