Salinger's Journey

Born on January 1st in New York 1919 in New York, Jerome David Salinger mainly attended public grammar schools and when he was 15 was sent by his father to the Pennsylvania Valley Forge Military Academy in 1934. This is where Salinger started his writing career, even though his interest during that time was acting.In 1936 he left Valley Forge and then attended New York University briefly unti l 1937 to pursue his luck in acting. Thereafter he attended the Ursinus University in Pennsylvania and did student magazine writing. After just one semester he spent time employed as a dance partner on a West Indies cruise liner for hire. He then enrolled for short story writing evening classes at Columbia University that was run by Story magazine founder/editor and in Salinger was first published in 1941 by Story Magazine.

Jerome David Salinger, established himself on his novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), the main character, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield, encapsulates the blossoming pains of college and high school phases encumbered by students through a non-literary first person narrative style account of escaping from a private school by running away to New York."The Catcher in the Rye" was a popular and immediate success. The depiction of the main character Holden Caulfield’s innocence loss and alienation as an adolescent became highly influential and remains both controversial and widely read in the range of 250000 copy sales annually and is forms part of a curriculum in most UK and US schools.The success of “The Catcher in the Rye” drew public attention that eventually led the heroic,legendary author to become a recluse and move away to the remote Cornish Hills from New York on Jaanuary 1st 1953 ,his 34th birthday. He bought land ,90-acre plot in Cornish, New Hampshire hilltop and lived in a cottage with no telephone, electricity or running water.

Salinger published on a less frequent level and after Catcher he published a collection of short stories titled, Nine Stories in 1953), a short story in 1961 titled Franny and Zooey, and a two novellas, , Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction and Raise High the Roof Beam in 1963. The final published piece from Salinger was a novella "Hapworth 16, 1924,” appearing in The New Yorker in June,1965ories (1953).

Although Salinger retreated to his remote Cornish home in New Hampshire he refused all interview requests for interviews, and halted all publishing in 1965 – though it is reported that he reportedly continued writing . He died on the 27th of January 2010 due to natural causes .