The Catcher in the Rye 70th Anniversary Edition / Author: [US] JD Salinger Publisher: Yilin Press

Salinger's full name is Jerome David Salinger. He was born in New York City in 1919. His father was a Jewish businessman who imported cheese and ham. His family was quite wealthy. When Salinger was 15 years old, his parents sent him to a military school in Pennsylvania to live in the school. It is said that the description of the boarding school in "The Catcher in the Rye" was largely based on that school. In 1936, Salinger graduated from the military school and obtained the only diploma in his life.

From the publication of his first short story in the magazine "Novel" in 1940 to the publication of his novel "The Catcher in the Rye" in 1951, he published more than 20 short stories in more than ten years. Some of them were also published in famous magazines such as "Master" and "The New Yorker", which made him a little famous in the literary world. After becoming famous, he lived in seclusion in the countryside and built a cement room with only one skylight for himself as a study. He took his lunch box into the room at 8:30 every morning to write and did not come out until 5:30 in the afternoon. No one in the family was allowed to go in and disturb him; if there was something important, he could only contact him by phone. His writing process is said to be very difficult. After the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", his writing progress became slower and slower. In ten years, he only published three novellas and one short story, and later he even stopped publishing works. People who occasionally had the honor of meeting him revealed that his face had "showed signs of aging". It is said that the number of his completed works is also considerable, but he is unwilling to publish them. Many publishers have been eyeing him, and some are even planning how to obtain the publishing rights to all his works after his death. However, apart from this book, the author has only published one short story collection, Nine Stories (195), and two novella collections, Franny and Zoë (1961) and Raise the Roof Beams, Carpenters; Seymour; An Introduction (1963).