About this book - The Catcher in the Rye is a book told by the character Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year old high school drop out. Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." By failing all but one of his school subjects, he manages to escape the highly structured academic environment and the demands placed upon him by teachers and other students. Even though Holden's emotional instability and lack of direction in life is rather saddening, it is a extremely funny book, especially relating to his antagonism towards society's "phonieness" and the dialogue he has with other characters.
About the author - Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out of several schools before enrolling in a writing class at Columbia University
, publishing his first piece ("The Young Folks") in Story magazine. Salinger served in the U.S. Army
in World War II
and participated in the D-Day
landings of 6 June 1944... He married Claire Douglas, a student at Radcliffe, in 1955. They had two children, Margaret Ann (b. 1955) and Matthew (b. 1960), and were divorced in 1965... Salinger had a love affair with author Joyce Maynard
in the early 1970s, which Maynard described in her 1998 memoir At Home In the World. She auctioned her personal letters from Salinger for nearly $160,000 in 1999... Salinger attended Valley Forge Military Academy
from 1934-36; it is generally considered to be the model for the school Pencey Prep in The Catcher In the Rye
.More from J.D. Salinger - Dream Catcher: A Memoir
, At Home in the World: A Memoir, Everything Salinger: The Complete J.D. Salinger Collection
, Salinger: A Biography
, A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
, Nine Stories
, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
, Franny and Zooey
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