About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Robert Frost, John Irving, Mary Baker Eddy, Dan Brown, J. D. Salinger, Mark Steyn, Sarah Josepha Hale, Susannah Willard Johnson, Carrie Jones, Donald Hall, Charles Simic, Elizabeth Yates, Henry Ames Blood, Edmund Pearson Dole, Armstrong Sperry, John Perkins, Tomie dePaola, Wesley McNair, Grace Metalious, Richard Eberhart, Maxine Kumin, Philip Booth, James Patrick Kelly, Joyce Maynard, Edward L. Rowan, Winston Churchill, Ashley Bryan, Jodi Picoult, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Celia Thaxter, Howard Mansfield, Denman Thompson, Virginia Heffernan, Daniel Doan, Jane Kenyon, W. E. Butts, Alice Brown, Dan Fitzpatrick, Paul Fleischman, Patricia Fargnoli, Patricia Goedicke, Walter Paine, Daniel Ford, Alice B. Fogel, C.B. Colby, Ivy Page, Nancy Lagomarsino, Lesle Lewis, Richard H. Sylvester, Michael Golay, Paul Scott Mowrer, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Jennifer Militello, Scott E. Green, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Jeff Friedman, David Elliott, Adam McCune. Excerpt: Jerome David Salinger (pronounced -in-j r; January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980. Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. Salinger published his first stories in Story magazine which was started by Whit Burnett. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, ...
