Salinger

American  

[sal-in-jer] / ˈsæl ɪn dʒər /

noun

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

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Salinger British  

/ ˈsælɪndʒə /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

To prepare for each shoot, Ms. Salinger told her subjects “not to clean up, not to prepare in any way, and no parents allowed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

"The problem that people object to is that even if inflation is down, the prices are still higher and that's true but they're higher because of the natural working of market forces," Prof Salinger said.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

Salinger alter ego Buddy Glass, the voice of several of the author’s short stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024

Salinger into publishing “Catcher in the Rye” with Bantam in the early 1960s by promising to produce the book with no illustration on its cover.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

A few more kids went to stand next to Mrs. Salinger and stare at the TV, but Mrs. Salinger didn’t seem to notice anything but the screen.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin