J.D. salinger

Born in 1919 to a prosperous Manhattan family, Jerome David Salinger grew up in a New York City milieu. Salinger’s upbringing was not unlike that of Holden Caulfield, the Glass children, and many other characters used in his stories. “Being a diligent student was never his first priority: after he flunked out of several prep schools, including the prestigious McBurney school, his parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania from which he …

…his life. In The Catcher in the Rye, he illustrates to the reader some of the problems that he encountered during his teenage and early adult years. Both of these novels have the same main theme, which was that of a sensitive teenager having trouble dealing with the world. J.D. Salinger uses the events that have taken place in his life to write the novels Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye.