US writer. He wrote the classic novel of mid-20th-century adolescence
The Catcher in the Rye (1951). He developed his lyrical Zen themes in
Franny and Zooey (1961),
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and
Seymour: An Introduction (1963). Some of his best short stories, such as ‘For Esmé – With Love and Squalor’, are collected in
Nine Stories (1953).
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