Works by
J. D. Salinger
(Aka Jerome David Salinger)
(Writer)
[January 1, 1919 - ]

Anthologies

• Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000), David Remnick, ed.
  See "Slight Rebellion off Madison" (story originally published 1946)

• Fiction Form and Experience: 30 Stories with Essays (1969), William M. Jones, ed.
  See "Go See Eddie" (story originally published 1940)

• The Armchair Esquire (1959), L. Rust Hills, ed.
  See "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" (story originally published 1945)

• Best American Short Stories: 1949 (1949), Martha Foley, ed.
  See "A Girl I Knew" (story originally published 1948)

• Story: The Fiction of the Forties (1949), Whit Burnett, ed.
  See "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" (story originally published 1942)

• The Saturday Evening Post Stories: 1942-1945 (1946), Ben Hibbs, ed.
  See "A Boy in France" (story originally published 1945)

• The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines  (1943)
  See "The Hang of It" (story originally published 1941)

Fiction

• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1955)
  Two long short stories first published in the "New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise High the Roof Beam", "Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself. Both are stream of consciousness narratives, focusing on the life of Seymour, the eldest Glass brother and exploring the brothers' quest for enlightenment. In the first piece, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend Seymour's wedding, the events occurring setting the scene for a tragedy to follow. In the second, Buddy reminisces about Seymour in an attempt to introduce this complex character properly to the reader.

• Franny and Zooey (1961)
  The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker< Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.

• Nine Stories (1953)
  Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make Salinger such a well-loved author.

  • "Teddy" (1953)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" (1952)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (1951)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "For Esmé with Love and Squalor" (1950)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "Down at the Dinghy" (1949)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "The Laughing Man" (1949)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (1948)
    See Nine Stories.

  • "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948)
    See Nine Stories.

• The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  Novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader.

See also:

• 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye (September 15, 2009 release) by John David California
  Fictional sequel Catcher in the Rye. 

• J.D. The Plot to Steal J.D. Salinger's Manuscripts (2009, Kindle edition) by Sierra Philpin
  He's a professor with a mission: "I, Leonard Wellington Worthy the third, spent twenty-five years designing an assault on a fortress, an expropriation of certain documents, and a perfect escape." Find out what happens when the fortress is J.D. Salinger's bunker, the documents are his unpublished manuscripts, and a messy murder thwarts a perfect plan.
  
  Political intrigue? Sure, there's plenty of that, too.
  
  J.D. is a funny, sexy romp for the literary set (relax: no authors were harmed in this book).

• J. D. Salinger: A Life Raised High (2009) by Kenneth Slawenski

• A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye  (2008) by Peter G. Beidler

• J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye and Other Works (2008) by Raychel Haugrud Reiff

• If You Really Want to Hear About It: Writers on J.D. Salinger and His Work (2006) by Catherine Crawford

• J.D. Salinger (2005) by Michael A. Sommers
  Young adult.

• J.D. Salinger (2002) by Harold Bloom
  Young adult.

• Dream Catcher -- Reflections on Reclusions (2001) by Margaret A. Salinger

• Salinger: A Biography (1999) by Paul Alexander

• At Home in the World (1998) by Joyce Maynard

• In Search of J D Salinger (1989) by Ian Hamilton

• United States Authors Series - J. D. Salinger, Revisited (1988) by Warren French

• Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait (1963), Henry Anatole Grunwald, ed.