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  One of the
most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D.
Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is
filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records. Kenneth
Slawenski explores Salinger’s privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the
brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother. Here too are accounts of
Salinger’s first broken heart—after Eugene O’Neill’s daughter, Oona, left him—and the
devastating World War II service that haunted him forever. J. D. Salinger features all the dazzle of this
author’s early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Elia Kazan,
his office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye,
which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. J. D. Salinger is this
unique author’s unforgettable story in full—one that no lover of literature can afford to miss.
  
  Amazon.com Review
  
  Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2011: In the year since his death, we've
heard much more about J.D. Salinger's reclusiveness and eccentricities, both real and exaggerated, than we have about
the writing that made him famous in the first place. Kenneth Slawenski's Salinger: A Life avoids such scandalmongering
in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at
Salinger's most famous works, but also finds a wealth of psychological insights in places like rejection letters and
biographical statements. Not surprisingly, Salinger's life, and especially his service in World War II, provided much of
the raw material for his stories. But Slawenski does much more than compare Salinger's biography to his literary output:
he also shows how compromises, conflicts, and editorial intrigues shaped Salinger's works, even when he was at the peak
of his career. The book has much less to say about Salinger's post-1960 retirement and self-seclusion, apart from the
author's occasional foray into the public eye by way of a rare interview or court case. But Slawenski does this for good
reason: Salinger: A Life seeks only to explain Salinger as most of us knew him, through his writing. As a result, both
die-hard fans and those who last picked up Catcher in the Rye in high school will find it enlightening. --Darryl
Campbell
  
  A Look Inside *J.D. Salinger: A Life*
  
  © PS 166
  Until he was thirteen,
Sonny attended public school on the Upper West Side. This is a class photo of Salinger and his schoolmates on the steps
of P.S. 166, circa 1929.
  
  © Valley Forge Military Academy
  Cadet Corporal Salinger in 1936.
Salinger’s yearbook photo from Valley Forge Military Academy. Salinger used his own boarding school as the
inspiration for Holden Caulfield’s Pency Prep when writing The Catcher in the Rye. Unlike Holden, Salinger
excelled at Valley Forge.
  
  © Dorothy Nollman/Peter Imbres
  Jerry in 1939. A photo taken by his
friend Dorothy Nollman while on break from Columbia University. Within a year, Salinger’s first short story would
be published and his career launched.
  
  Between boot camp and combat. Air Corps photo taken in 1943 while
Salinger was assigned to the Public Relations Department of the Air Service Command. A year later he would be fighting
in Europe.
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
  Starred Review. After nearly a decade's research and
Slawenskiâ„¢s obvious empathy with his reclusive subjectâ„¢s search for emotional and philosophical equilibrium,
this exemplary biography will be released on the first anniversary of J.D. Salingerâ„¢s death. Itâ„¢s a highly
informative effort to assess the arc of Salingerâ„¢s career, the themes of his fiction, and his influence on
20th-century American literature. Born in 1919, indulged by his mother while growing up on Park Avenue, Salinger was a
bored and indifferent student. He eventually found a mentor in legendary Columbia professor Whit Burnett, who encouraged
him to work on the pieces that became The Catcher in the Rye even while Salinger was serving in WWII Europe. Slawenski
emphasizes that Salingerâ„¢s wartime experience, from D-Day to the liberation of Dachau, Å“was the traumatic
turning point in his life, influencing the sense of futility that permeates his early work. Salingerâ„¢s salvation,
Slawenski demonstrates, came through his acceptance of Vedatic Buddhism, and he argues persuasively that Salinger came
to consider writing an aspect of meditation, a task that demanded solitude and perfect control over the presentation of
his fiction. The celebrity surrounding the publication of Catcher in the Rye in 1951 activated the split between his
striving for asceticism and the demands of the outside world. Slawenski describes Salingerâ„¢s three marriages,
records his contentious relationships with his publishers, his special relationship with the New Yorker, and
Slawenskiâ„¢s assiduous research allows him to identify and assess many obscure and unpublished stories. In total,
an invaluable work that sheds fascinating light on the willfully elusive author. B&w photos. (Jan. 25) 
  (c)
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