J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger · Arts & Literature
Author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
1919, Manhattan, New York, United States — 2010, Cornish, New Hampshire, United States
United States
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J.D. Salinger was an American author whose 1951 novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' became one of the most influential works of 20th-century literature before he withdrew into decades of seclusion. His father, Sol Salinger, was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, while his mother was of Scots-Irish origin; Salinger learned as a teenager that she was not Jewish, so his Jewish connection is through his father (partial ancestry).
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Author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
Source: Wikipedia (Jewish father, Sol Salinger, of Lithuanian-Jewish descent)
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