J. D. Salinger was born on 1 January 1919 in Manhattan. An American author, Salinger is best known for The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951, a novel narrated by the disaffected teenager Holden Caulfield, which became a symbol of adolescent alienation and a cult classic. He also wrote Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker and center on the Glass family. After the success of his novel he withdrew from public life, and moved to a secluded home in Cornish, New Hampshire, where he lived for decades while refusing interviews and publication. He last published in 1965.
Before and after
- from 1919 to 1946Founding of League of Nations
- 1919Construction of Tesco
- 1919Founding of International Labour Organization
- 1919Founding of International Astronomical Union
- 1 January 1919Birth of J. D. Salinger
- from 1919 to 1921White Terror
- from 5 January 1919 to 12 January 1919Spartacist uprising
- 6 January 1919Death of Theodore Roosevelt
- 14 January 1919Birth of Giulio Andreotti
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