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was an outstanding author in the post-World War II American literature. As the representative work of Salinger，The Catcher in the Rye is an excellent fiction which makes him gain a reputation in the literary world, and makes him one of the most important novelists in the United States after World War II. 

J. D. Salinger was born in Manhattan, New York City on January 1, 1919. His father was a Jewish importer and his mother a Scotch-Irish Christian. When he was thirteen, his parents enrolled him in the Mcburney School, but he flunked out within one year. When he was fifteen, he was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania where he began to write short stories. Actually this school is the prototype for Pencey Prey School in The Catcher in the Rye. He graduated from Valley Forge in 1936 and attended a number of colleges, including Colombia University, where Salinger enrolled in a short story writing class offered by Whit Burnet, editor of the literary magazine Story. Salinger had his first story published in 1940. In 1942 he was drafted into the army, where he was trained for counterintelligence. Although his career as a writer was interrupted by World War Two, Salinger resumed his writing career primarily for The New Yorker magazine after returning from service in the U.S. army in 1946. In 1951, Salinger published his only novel The Catcher in the Rye, for which he is best known.

Actually J. D. Salinger was more a writer than a novelist, for he wrote scores of short stories but only one novel. Some of the stories were compiled into collections, including Nine Stories( 1953), Franny and Zooey( 1961) and Raise High the Roof Beam( 1955), Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction（1963）. Others were never officially published even when he got a lot of fame after the success of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951. As soon as The Catcher in the Rye was published, it caused a sensation. First published in mid-July in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye soon reached the fourth place on the New York Times best-seller list. In the next ten years, over three million copies were sold. In January of 1960, almost ten years after its publication, the novel which illustrated the disillusion and depression of a sixteen-year-old boy reappeared on the New York Times best-seller list. The novel was included on Time’s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The Catcher in the Rye begins with Holden being expelled from Pencey for academic failure. After an unpleasant evening with his self-satisfied roommate Stradlater and their pimply neighbor Ackley, he decided to leave Pencey for good and spent a few days alone in New York City, where he struggled to survive in the adult world. He felt depressed, when he thought of his younger brother Allie’s death. He wanted to see his sister Phoebe and his girlfriend Jane Gallagher. He finally decided to sneak back to his parents’ apartment to talk to his sister Phoebe. He borrowed some money from her to buy the food for the duck in the park, and then he went to ask his former teacher Mr. Antolini for help. But he thought Mr Antolini was making a homosexual advance toward him, so Holden wandered aimlessly in the streets, looking at the innocent children. He tried to leave New York City and went to the west. But when his sister wanted本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。