Jerome David Salinger Influences

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Jerome David Salinger, was one of the most influent american writers in the XX century, being author of some famous books like “Nine stories”, “Franny & Zooey”, “Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” and “Hapworth 16, 1924”, all about the relationship of one single family, the Grass family. Although his only work that really made him famous was his first and most polemic and important novel,“The Catcher in the Rye”.

J. D. Salinger (January 1, 1919), was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, son of a Jewish father and Scottish mother. Besides being a very intelectual person, he never liked to study, after he got reproved on his school he was sent by his parents to a military school starting his writing life in high school and publishing

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