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Bananafish

United States of America · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1953

Jerome David Salinger1953

Arts / Literature

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

Names involved

Jerome David Salinger

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