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J.D. Salinger
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
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Scope: J. D. Salinger was a New Hampshire writer whose writing career began at the age of fifteen when he published his first short story. He led a very reclusive life, but achieved great popularity among the adolescent and college set. His most famous novel is Catcher in the Rye. The theme of his novels is the blossoming of adolescence and the exuberance of youth.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of J. D. Salingers works are listed in the Baddour Library on-line catalog under Salinger, J. D.: and under individual titles, i.e. Franny and Zooey.
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Books written by and about J. D. Salinger have the call number(s) PS 3537.A426
Some representative books from the circulating collection that is located upstairs in the library are:
Pinsker, Sanford. The Catcher in the Rye: Innocence Under Pressure. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Salzman, Jack. New Essays on the Catcher in the Rye. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PR 821.C7 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol. 6
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2 American Novelists Since World War II
REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers Vol. 4
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, &
TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list
of full text journals available through our databases
in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
08/20/2007
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