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J.D. Salinger Biography

Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City to a Jewish importer of kosher cheese and his Scotch-Irish wife. He had one sibling, an older sister named Doris. The Salingers lived in a wealthy Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan. Growing up, J.D. (also called Sonny, and today called Jerry by friends and family) was distant with his father. Being half Jewish (his mother was Catholic) was a source of much conflict in J.D., so much in fact that he did not even attend his father’s funeral. The conflict was more of a social conflict than a religious one, however. Salinger was very fond of his mother, but his father had always put a lot of pressure on him to succeed in school and get a steady job, preferably in the meat and cheese importing business. After viewing a meat packing plant, Salinger decided he did not want to have anything to do with the business, and this trauma is most likely also a reason for his vegetarianism as an adult. Salinger grew up wealthy, but because of the pressure his dad placed on him to land a high paying job as an adult, he resented it, and finally decided to become a writer.

Jerome received high marks in grade school, but once he entered prep school, he was dropped out for

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