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Jerome David Salinger is born on January 1, 1912 to Solomon and Miriam Jillich Salinger. A sister, Doris, had been born in Chicago, 1912. Salinger's father was regional manager for a meat and cheese import company and the son of Jewish immigrants. His mother was born in Iowa of German and Irish ancestry. This is a poster print of the American author JD Salinger (1919-2010), best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The caption reads: This is JD Salinger. And no, he wont be returning your call. After The Catcher in the Rye caught on Salinger became increasingly (and famously) reclusive.

Airs Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBSTV

Friday, January 17, 2014

By Jennifer Robinson

Credit: Courtesy of Antony Di Gesu

Above: J.D. Salinger with signature cigarette.

Filmmaker Shane Salerno’s 10-year investigation culminates in the first work to get beyond 'The Catcher in the Rye' author's impenetrable wall of privacy and seclusion. AMERICAN MASTERS presents the exclusive, never-before-seen director’s cut of 'Salinger' as the series’ 200th episode, featuring 15 minutes of new material.

Salinger is an intricately structured mystery that reveals the author’s private world: how World War II influenced his life and work, his painstaking writing methods, his many relationships with young women, and the literary secrets he left behind after his death in 2010.

The documentary features interviews with some 150 subjects including Salinger's friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who speak on the record for the first time, as well as previously unseen film footage, photographs and other materials.

Participants including E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Pulitzer Prize-winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank, actors Martin Sheen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, playwright John Guare and Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne all share Salinger’s influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.

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'The Catcher in the Rye' as a Revolt Against the 1950s

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor Elizabeth Frank credits J.D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' with pointing out the dreariness and hypocrisy of the early 1950's. 'I think that The Catcher in the Rye was a very revolutionary book for the America of of the early 1950's. It truly was an era of conformity. I remember the 50s and I'm glad that they're over with.'

Salinger's Last Story in Cosmopolitan, 'Blue Melody'

Editor, novelist and playwright A.E. Hotchner talks about J.D. Salinger's last short story in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1948. Then Salinger's friend and a Cosmopolitan editor, Hotchner had been warned by Salinger that 'not one word can be changed' in the story. Unbeknownst to Hotchner, others had made a single edit. Salinger's title 'Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record' became 'Blue Melody.'

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Season 26 2m 46s Editor, novelist and playwright A. Rudford told me a story; he didn’t give me his autobiography.

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We’re staying here at the hotel. He sat for a minute wondering what he would say to her; that is if he were to get up and go over to her table–a distance of fifteen years.

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He let salijger the blind string in his hand, and the blind snapped to the top; it slattered noisily for a moment, then came to a stop. But as long as Agersburg could hold her, she was adored, deified, by the young people there.

So long as the car kept moving, her eyes were shut. Not even halfway to Memphis. She was a very tall girl.

Nobody knew for certain why Lida Louise quit Meadows’s and left Memphis. The boy looked down at her and answered, almost at the top of his voice, “I’m right here, Honey! You Might Also Like Left.

In saying blje voice can’t be described, Rudford probably meant that it can’t be classified. During his first year at boarding school, his father moved to San Francisco, re-married and stayed there. So they were there.

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An hour later she was packed and ready to go. I didn’t even get to hear it again. She just went back.

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Then, inevitably, Lewis harold Meadows heard her and took her back to Memphis with him.