Experiences and Writings J.D. Salinger Biography

" What I like best is a book that's funny once in a while... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."- Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye
<Tab/><Tab/>Jerome David Salinger came into this world on January 1, 1919. J.D. was short
for Jerome David. He went by J.D. when he was young and he never let go of the name as he got older. J.D. was born in New York City, Ne…