Jerome David Salinger Biography

Birth of Jerome David Salinger

Leaves Austria only a month or so before it was annexed by Nazi Germany

Attends a Columbia University evening writing class taught by Whit Burnett, longtime editor of Story magazine

Submits a short story titled "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" to The New Yorker

Publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", chronicling 48 hours in the life of a teenage rebel, Holden Caulfield, as he wanders the streets of New York in a state of mental collapse, it enjoyed early, but modest success

Publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", chronicling 48 hours in the life of a teenage rebel, Holden Caulfield, as he wanders the streets of New York in a state of mental collapse, it enjoyed early, but modest success

Publishes a collection of seven stories from The New Yorker ("Bananafish" among them). Fed up with publishing and the public, buys a house at Cornish, New Hampshire, and retreats into a seclusion that was to last for the rest of his life

Publishes a collection of seven stories from The New Yorker ("Bananafish" among them). Fed up with publishing and the public, buys a house at Cornish, New Hampshire, and retreats into a seclusion that was to last for the rest of his life

Marries Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35

Publication of "Franny and Zooey"

Publication of " Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour"

Death of Jerome David Salinger