J.d.salinger Circa 1950 Color Added 2015

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J.d.salinger Circa 1950 Color Added 2015

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David Lee Guss

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Photograph - Photography

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"Jerome David 'J.D.' Salinger (January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010) was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.

In the spring of 1942, several months after the United States entered World War II, Salinger was drafted into the army, wherein he saw combat with the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day, in the Battle of the Bulge, and the Battle of Hartgen Forest.

During the campaign from Normandy into Germany, Salinger arranged to meet with Ernest Hemingway, a writer who had influenced him and was then working as a war correspondent in Paris. Salinger was impressed with Hemingway's friendliness and modesty, finding him more 'soft' than his gruff public persona. Hemingway was impressed by Salinger's writing and remarked: 'Jesus, he has a helluva talent.' The two writers began corresponding; Salinger wrote Hemingway in July 1946 that their talks were among his few positive memories of the war. Salinger added that he was working on a play about Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of his story "Slight Rebellion off Madison", and hoped to play the part himself.

Salinger was assigned to a counter-intelligence division, for which he used his proficiency in French and German to interrogate prisoners of war. In April 1945 he entered a liberated concentration camp, probably one of Dachau's sub-camps. Salinger earned the rank of Staff Sergeant[ and served in five campaigns. Salinger's experiences in the war affected him emotionally. He was hospitalized for a few weeks for combat stress reaction after Germany was defeated,and he later told his daughter: 'You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.' Both of his biographers speculate that Salinger drew upon his wartime experiences in several stories,"

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