JEROME DAVID SALINGER (1919–2010) was an American writer whose novel THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-World War II generation of college students.  His corpus of published works also consists of short stories that were printed in magazines, including the The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and The New Yorker.

After brief periods at New York and Columbia universities, he devoted himself entirely to writing, and his stories began to appear in periodicals in 1940.  Following Salinger's return from service in the U.S. Army (1942–46), his name and writing style became increasingly associated with The New Yorker magazine, which published almost all of his later stories.  Some of the best of these made use of his wartime experiences: "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" (1950) describes a U.S. soldier's poignant encounter with two British children; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) concerns the suicide of the sensitive, despairing veteran Seymour Glass.

Major critical and popular recognition came with the publication of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.  Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.  NINE STORIES (1953), a selection of Salinger's short stories, added to his reputation.  Several of his published pieces feature the siblings of the fictional Glass family, beginning with Seymour's appearance in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."  In works such as FRANNY AND ZOOEY (1961) and RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS AND SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (1963), the introspective Glass children, influenced by their eldest brother and his death, navigate questions about spirituality and enlightenment.

Salinger's reclusive habits in his later years made his personal life a matter of speculation among devotees, and his small literary output was a subject of controversy among critics.  The last work Salinger published during his lifetime was a novella titled "Hapworth 16, 1924", which appeared in The New Yorker in 1965.  In 1974, the COMPLETE UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES, an unauthorized two-volume work of his early pieces, was briefly released to the public, but sales were halted when Salinger filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF as noted:

* 22 Out-of-Print Stories (n.p., n.d.) – ePUB + PDF
* Catcher in the Rye, The (Little, Brown, 2019) – ePUB + PDF
* Complete Uncollected Short Stories (n.p., 1974) – PDF
* Franny and Zooey (Little, Brown, 2019) – ePUB + PDF^
* Last Interview & Other Conversations (Melville House, 2016) – ePUB
* Nine Stories (Little, Brown, 2019) – ePUB + PDF^
(published in the UK as "For Esmé, With Love and Squalor")
* Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters + Seymour (LB, 2019) – ePUB + PDF^
* Three Early Stories [Illustrated] (Devault-Graves, 2014) – ePUB
* Three Stories (n.p., 2013) – ePUB

== OTHER ==

* J.D. Salinger: Annotated Bibliography, 1938-1981 (Garland, 1984) – PDF
* Letters to J.D. Salinger (Wisconsin, 2002). Kubica & Hochman, ed. – ePUB


PDF^ = courtesy of Mohamed5438

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