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Salinger

[ sal-in-jer ]

noun

  1. J(erome) D(avid), 1971–2010, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.


Salinger

/ ˈsælɪndʒə /

noun

  1. SalingerJ(erome) D(avid)19192010MUSWRITING: writer J ( erome ) D ( avid ) 1919–2010, US writer, noted particularly for his novel of adolescence The Catcher in the Rye (1951). His first novel for 34 years, Hapworth 16, 1924 was published in 1997
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Salinger fell in love with Oona O’Neill while at the Jersey Shore.

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And the unhip multitudes it contains include Disney, Salinger, and Sylvia Plath.

I wanted something that connects Walt Disney and J.D. Salinger and Buddy Holly and Sylvia Plath to what we now know as Twee.

Salinger did not always think it essential to keep his personal views to himself.

“Justice-without-mercy must easily be the bleakest, coldest, combination of words in the language,” Salinger writes.

By the time Salinger sat down to write a story titled "Mrs. Hincher," he was deeply frustrated.

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