1、Jerome.David. Salinger（1919-2010） Made by 李嘉雪 唐玉婷 吴蓓静 李璞曦 曹驿心（ 15班）Introduction As an American novelist and short story writer, Salinger published one novel and several short story collections between 1948-1959. In 1951, Salinger published his only full-length novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which pr
2、opelled him onto the national stage. Salinger had his first short story published in 1940; he continued to write as he joined the army and fought in Europe during World War II. 1Life Experience2Major W orks3The Catcher in The Rye4Literary Style And Themes5InfluenceLife Experience Born in New York Ci
3、ty in 1919. The son of a Jewish wealthy cheese importer, Salinger grew up in a fashionable neighborhood in Manhattan and spent his youth being shuttled between various prep schools before his parents finally settled on the Valley Forge Military Academy in 1934. His familyHis paternal grandfather, Si
4、mon, born in Lithuania,was at one time the rabbi for the Adath Jeshurun congregation in Louisville, Kentucky.His mother, Marie , was born in Atlantic, Iowa(美国衣阿华州） , of Scottish , German and Irish descent. His father, Sol Salinger, sold kosher(犹太洁食认证的） cheese.His only sibling was his older sister Do
5、ris (19112001).Early life The young Salinger attended public schools on the West Side of Manhattan, then in 1932, the family moved to Park Avenue and Salinger was enrolled at the McBurney School, a private school in Manhattan.In 1933 his parents enrolled him into Valley Forge Military Academy in Way
6、ne, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1936. At Valley Forge, Salinger was the literary editor of the class yearbook, Cross Sabres. He started his freshman year at New York University in 1936, and considered studying special education, but dropped out the following spring. That fall, his father urg
7、ed him to learn about the meat-importing business and he went to work at a company in Vienna, Austria. He left Austria only a month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938. He attended Ursinus College in the fall of 1938 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and dropped out after one semeste
8、r. In 1939, Salinger attended a Columbia University evening writing class taught by Whit Burnett, longtime editor of Story magazine.Salingers debut short story was published in the magazines MarchApril 1940 issue. Burnett became Salingers mentor, and they corresponded for several years.World War II
9、In late 1941, Salinger briefly worked on a Caribbean cruise ship, serving as an activity director and possibly as a performer. The same year, Salinger began submitting short stories to The New Yorker. Seven of Salingers stories were rejected by the magazine that year, including “Lunch for Three“, “M
10、onologue for a Watery Highball“, and “I Went to School with Adolf Hitler“ Salinger was assigned to a counter-intelligence division, where he used his proficiency in French and German to interrogate prisoners of war.He was also among the first soldiers to enter a liberated concentration camp（解放集中营） .
11、 Salinger earned the rank of Staff Sergeant and served in five campaigns. Salingers experiences in the war affected him emotionally. Salinger continued to write while serving in the army, and published several stories in slick magazines such as Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. He also continu
12、ed to submit stories to The New Yorker, but with little success; it rejected all of his submissions from 1944 to 1946, and in 1945 rejected a group of 15 poems.Post-war years After Germanys defeat, Salinger signed up for a six-month period of “Denazification“ duty in Germany for the Counterintellige
13、nce Corps. He lived in Weissenburg and, soon after, married a woman named Sylvia Welter. He brought her to the United States in April 1946, but the marriage fell apart after eight months and Sylvia returned to Germany. Years later, in 1972, Salingers daughter Margaret was with him when he received a letter from Sylvia. He looked at the envelope, and without reading it, tore it apart. It was the first time he had heard from her since the breakup, but as Margaret put it, “when he was finished with a person, he was through with them.“
