Author

Books by J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) served in World War II, including at the D-Day landings and through the end of the war, experiences that marked his fiction profoundly. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) was his only novel; he also published a celebrated collection of short stories, Nine Stories, and two volumes of novellas featuring the Glass family — Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. After the late 1960s, Salinger stopped publishing entirely and became famously reclusive in rural New Hampshire, declining interviews and legal action against unauthorized adaptations until his death.