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unusual facts about J.D. Salinger



300 East 57th Street

The building is the last known New York address for J. D. Salinger before he moved to a life of seclusion in the New Hampshire woods.

Alphonse and Gaston

In J.D. Salinger's short story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, the main protagonist likens the interactions between him and his step-father Bobby as a ghastly little after-you-Alphonse relationship.

Anti-romance

J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is probably the most famous and successful anti-romance, though there are many others, including Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, "Araby" by James Joyce and Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

Fair dealing in Canadian copyright law

The author of a biography of J. D. Salinger was prevented from quoting or paraphrasing Salinger’s ideas displayed in an unpublished, but publicly archived, correspondence written by Salinger.

Hikari Ōta

Ōta is a bibliophile—reportedly reading over 100 books a year—and some of his favorite authors include Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai (of whom Ōta's father was a student), many of them holding some similitude to his often absurdist view of the world.

Jewish American literature

It reached some of its most mature expression in the 20th century "Jewish American novels" by Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth.

Lover I Don't Have to Love

The line "I asked your name, you asked the time" is a reference to the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The final part of the book, The Coda, focuses on the mental disintegration of Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, and includes Chapter 27, the so-called missing chapter of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of disaffected youth, The Catcher in the Rye, that "inspired" Chapman to murder Lennon.

Quim Monzó

He has also translated a large number of authors, including Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Hardy, Harvey Fierstein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Roald Dahl, Mary Shelley, Javier Tomeo, Arthur Miller, and Eric Bogosian.

R. W. B. Lewis

The book traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue, Lewis exposes its continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

Rule of the Bone

Some critics, such as Michiko Kakutani for the New York Times, describe the book as descending from other novels about rebellious teens, such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New York Times review, May 19, 1995.

Satellite Rides

"Rollerskate skinny" refers to Holden Caulfield's description of his sister in J. D. Salinger's seminal novel, The Catcher in the Rye, while "Buick City Complex" refers to workers affected by General Motors' decision to close its failed mega-factory in Flint, Michigan.

Seb Lester

Lester is notable for his 2009–2010 redesigns for Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton of four covers of J. D. Salinger books, including The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey.

Starets

The concept of the elder may be familiar to many Western readers through J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey.

Teenage rebellion

The classic novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has gained a reputation as the quintessential book on teenage rebellion.

The Way of a Pilgrim

The Way of a Pilgrim is the focus of the story "Franny" from the 1961 collection of short stories, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.

Tuckahoe, Suffolk County, New York

In Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger,  Beatrice "Boo Boo" Glass Tannenbaum is referred to as a Tuckahoe homemaker.

VIA Talas

By the time the band had released their debut album Perfektan dan za banana ribe (A perfect day for bananafish), in 1983, under the name Talas, which got the title by the J. D. Salinger's short-story A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Pečar and Mijatović were the only band members.

Zooey

The name was, at least for decades, best known as a masculine nickname for "Zachary" or "Zechariah", from its use by J. D. Salinger for his character Zooey Glass.


see also

James Avati

Among the authors he worked with included the likes of Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, J. D. Salinger, James T. Farrell, Pearl Buck, John O'Hara, Mickey Spillane, Erle Stanley Gardner, Alberto Moravia, and James Michener.

Salinger

Matt Salinger (born 1960), American actor, the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Claire Douglas

The Wynona Riders

Time was booked into Andy Ernst's Art of Ears studio, where "J.D. Salinger" had been recorded to record an EP, Artificial Intelligence(LKOUT 162) for Lookout!, but before the band entered the studio they broke up after performing onstage at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, ironically while opening for Fifteen's farewell show.