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J.D. Salinger

Jerome David Salinger was born on the 1st of January 1919. Salinger shared many similarities with Holden one of these being that his parents were also from two different religions; his father was Jewish and his mother was Irish, one can assume that she was either Catholic or Protestant, so for them to marry one must have assumed the others religion. Salinger only had one sibling. A sister Doris who was eight years olders than he was. Also like Holden, Holden was a native New Yorker, living in the upper east side district then later in park avenue, near cantral park. This was an area that features strongly in The Catcher in the Rye and is also where Holden lives in the novel. Both Holden and Salinger attended many prep schools. But unlike Holden, Salinger was finally able to graduate. He then went off to NYU. He was only there for a short time because his father took him to Vienna to learn how to be a sucessful business man. When he was finally able to return her enrolled in a short story writing course and in 1940 he published his first story.