Some interesting facts about salinger

--Salinger’s father wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a meat importer, sending his son to Austria to learn the trade. Salinger left Austria just one month before the country fell to Hitler.
--He served in the army during World War II, saw action in D-Day, was among the first American soldiers to enter a liberated concentration camp, and interrogated prisoners of war as a counter-intelligence officer.
--The Catcher in the Rye was one of the most banned books and paradoxically one of the most taught books of the twentieth century.
--Salinger has been at various times a Zen Buddhist, a Christian Scientist, and a Scientologist.
--His father was a wealthy Jewish importer of Kosher cheese