J. D. Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919, and died in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 27, 2010. His stories appeared in many magazines, most notably The New Yorker. Between 1951 and 1963 he produced four book-length works of fiction: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Franny and Zooey; and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour--An Introduction. The books have been embraced and celebrated throughout the world and have been credited with instilling in many a lifelong love of reading.
"Franny and Zooey is one of the few books that I've returned to
every year...I love it for its comedy--Salinger's dialogue is
wonderful--for its mocking fondness, and as a portrait of a
troubled, loving family. I still treasure it and I don't think I've
read anything since that has affected me and inspired me as much,
both as a reader and a writer."--David Nicholls, The Guardian
"Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm
doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the
Glasses...I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting
for them most of my life."--J. D. Salinger
"Brilliant...What makes reading Salinger such a consistently
bracing experience is our sense of always being in the presence of
something that--whatever it is--isn't fishy."--Janet Malcolm, New
York Review of Books
"You can see Salinger's increasing mastery on page after page...If
the world survives, as it shows a magnificently stubborn intention
of doing, Mr. Salinger's stories will decidedly continue to widen
the range of contemporary reading."--Charles Poore, New York Times
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