He started writing short stories while studying at Columbia University.
His first short story published appeared in Story magazine in the March-April 1940 issue. In 1941 he began submitting stories to The New Yorker magazine. They rejected him seven times before publishing him.
He wrote his most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, in 1951.
JD Salinger was never a fugitive.
JD Salinger's full name is Jerome David Salinger.
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There is no concrete evidence to suggest that J.D. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway knew each other personally. They were both prominent American authors of their time, but it is not documented that they ever had any significant interactions.
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Jerome David Salinger was 32 years old when he wrote his first and only novel, "The Catcher in the Rye."
J.D. Salinger's parents were Sol Salinger, a Jewish businessman, and Marie Jillich Salinger, a Scotch-Irish woman. They raised J.D. Salinger in Manhattan, New York.
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Miss Megley is the secretary at Pencey Prep in J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye." She is described as a strict and unapproachable figure who seems to have a negative impact on the main character, Holden Caulfield.
J.D. Salinger was associated with the literary period known as Modernism. His most famous work, "The Catcher in the Rye," was published in 1951 during the post-World War II era in the United States when Modernist ideas were still prevalent.
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