That David Copperfield Kind of Crap...

1919 01 Jan

Born at NY Nursery and Child's Hospital on West 61st.St Second Child, only son, of Solomon.S & Miriam Jilich, nee. Marie. Family lived at 3681 Broadway.Moved to 113th. Street, Upper West Side

1928

Moved to 221, West Eighty-second Street, near American Museum of Natural History & the zoo in Central Park

1932

Moved across the park to an apartment building on the corner of Park and East Ninety-first Street. Enrolls McBurney School, Manhatten (NY West 63rd. St) Reporter on The McBurnian; Acted in two school plays -female part in each: Marie's Ankle & Jonesy

1934

Enrolls Valley Forge Military Academy, Pennsylvania Literary Editor, Crossed Sabres, the School Year Book

1935

Nicknamed "Salinger the Sublime"

1936

Acts as Ralegh in R.CC. Sherriff's Journey's End Contributes class song Graduates, Valley Forge Military Academy

Jun

Applies to New York University, accepted for Fall Semester.

1937

Vienna and Poland visits with Sol to learn Cheese & Ham Importing Business--and to improve his French and German. Wrote English advertising copy for an Austrian business associate of Sol's. Visit to Bydgoszcz.

1938

Short stint at Ursinus College, Collegetown, Pennsylvania. "The Skipped Diploma: Musings of a Social Soph" column featuring movie reviews etc. for the College paper, Ursinus Weekly. Ernest Hemingway, "underworked and drooled."Frances Thierolf, later, Glassmoyer.

1939

Joins Whit Burnett's short-story writing class at Columbia University Admiration for Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald. Intrigued by William Saroyan

1940 Mar-Apr

"The Young Folks" in Whit Burnett's Story Magazines. Gets $25

Dec

"Go See Eddie" in The University of Kansas City Review, earlier rejected by Esquire.

1941

12 Jul "The Hang of It" in Collier's

Sep

"The Heart of a Broken Story" Sells what was to be "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" to New Yorker, publication delayed due WWII, till 1946 Classified 1-B by Selective Service, Works as Entertainment Director on M.S. Kungsholm

1942 Sep-Oct

"The Long Debut of Lois Taggett," Story, XXI

12 Dec

"Personal Notes of an Infantryman," Collier's, CX Reclassified by SS, drafted into U.S. Army Attends Officers, First Sergeants, and Instructors School of Signal Corps. Romantic Correspondence with Oona O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill's daughter and later Charlie Chaplin's wife. Elizabeth Murray correspondence. Marriage on the mind.

1943 17 Jul

"The Varioni Brothers," The Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI Stationed in Nashville, Tennessee as Staff Sergeant Transferred to Army Counter-Intelliegence Corps

1944 26 Feb

"Both Parties Concerned," The Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI -Orig JDS title: "Wake me when it thunders"

15 Apr

"Soft-Boiled Sergeant," The Saturday Evening Post, CCXVI -Orig JDS title: "Death of a Dogface"

15 Jul

"Last Day of the Last Furlough," The Saturday Evening Post, CCXVII

???

Counter Intelligence training at Tiverton in Devonshire, England Lands on Utah Beach Normandy on D Day Participates in five campaigns in Europe

Sep

Meets Ernest Hemingway

Nov-Dec "Once A Week Won't Kill You," Story, XXV. Sends Whit Burnett $250 as a contest prize for another young writer and proposes a collection of stories to be called "The Young Folk"

1945 31 Mar

"A Boy in France," The Saturday Evening Post, CCXVII

Mar-Apr

"Elaine," Story, XXVI

Jul

Letter to Hemingway about hospitalisation in Nuremburg Possible threat of "psychiatric discharge: from the army.

Sep

Gets married to a French girl, Sylvia, a doctor, either a psychologist or an osteopath

Oct

"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise," Esquire, XXIV

Nov

Discharge from the army

01 Dec

"The Stranger," Collier's, CXVI

12 Dec

"I'm Crazy," Collier's, CXVI, first published story about CITR

1946 May

Return to US with Sylvia

21 Dec

"Slight Rebellion Off Madison," The New Yorker, XXII 90-page Novellette accepted for publication withdrawn.

1947 Jan

Moves to Tarrytown, in Westchester County, a small apartment over a suburban garage.

May

"A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All," Mademoiselle, XXV Moved to a barn studio in Stamford, Connecticut, moving to Wisconsin for the Summer of 48, prolly a girlfriend angle.

Dec

"The Inverted Forest," Cosmopolitan, CCXXII

1948 31 Jan

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in New Yorker-first Seymour Glass appearance

Feb

"A Girl I Knew," Good Housekeeping, CXXVI -selected for Best American Short Stories of 1949

20 Mar

"Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," The New Yorker, XXIV

05 Jun

"Just Before the War with the Eskimos," The New Yorker, XXIV

Sep

"Blue Melody," Cosmopolitan, CXXV Orig."Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record."Moved to Westport Connecticut.

1949 19 Mar

"The Laughing Man," The New Yorker, XXV

Apr

"Down at the Dinghy," Harper's, CXCVIII

1950 ??

Begins studying Advaita Vedanta under Swami Nikhilananda at Sumitra Paniter Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center in NYC.

21 Jan

"My Foolish Heart", film version of Uncle Wiggily released by Samuel Goldwyn Studio

08 Apr

"For Esme-With Love and Squalor," The New Yorker, XXVI -also in Prize Stories of 1950

1951 14 Jul

"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes," The New Yorker, XXVII

16 Jul

"The Catcher in the Rye"

1952 May

"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period," World Review, XXXIX -only known story published outside USA. Discomforted to be selected as one of three distinguished Alumini of the year by the Valley Forge Military Academy

1953 31 Jan

"Teddy," The New Yorker, XXVIII Moves to Cornish, New Hampshire

06 Apr

"Nine Stories"

1955 29 Jan

"Franny," The New Yorker, XXX

17 Feb

Marries Claire Douglas

19 Nov

"Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters," The New Yorker, XXXI

09 Dec

Man-Forsaken Man: in New York Post Magazine

10 Dec

Daughter, Margaret Ann, born

1957 04 May

"Zooey" in New Yorker

1959 06 Jun

"Seymour: An Introduction," The New Yorker, XXXV

1960 13 Feb

Son, Matthew, born

1961 14 Sep

"Franny and Zooey"

1963 28 Jan

"Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction"

1964

Contriibuted for what was to be published in 1975 in "Epilogue: A Salute to Whit Burnett", originally intended for Story Jubilee: "33 Years of Story" in 1965.

1965 19 Jun

"Hapworth 16, 1924", The New Yorker

1967 Nov

Divorce granted Claire Salinger at Newport, New Hampshire (Sullivan County seat)

1970

Repays with interest a $75,000 advance from Little, Brown

1974

Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J.D.Salinger -unauthorised edition in two volumes, Berkely, California

03 Nov

"J.D.Salinger Speaks about His silence", New York Times First public statement in years to Lacey Fosburgh, San Fransisco correspondent, denouncing "terrible invasion of my privacy." "Stolen Coat" analogy. And the hope that those stories "Die a perfectly natural death"

1975

Fiction Writers's Handbook by Hallie and WHit Burnett with the entry above for 1964.

1977

"For Rupert--with No Promises" by Gordon Lish in Esquire.

1980 Jun

Betty Eppes "Interview"

Dec

John Lennon shot dead by Mark David Chapman, copy of CITR in hand.

1981 24 Jul

"What I Did Last Summer" by Betty Eppes in Paris Review

1982

"Benedictus" in New York Times, full page ad. Journalist sued for trying to sell a fake interview to People. "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella

1986

Suit granted in his favour against San Fransisco booksellers Granted an injunction against the publication of an unauthorised biography by British writer Ian Hamilton

1987 Jan

Joins other New Yorker contributors in a protest against the replacement of editor William Shawn by new publishers.

08 Mar

Son Matthew (Matt) Salinger stars in CBS telefilm Deadly Deception

Nov

Injunction against Hamilton's "J.D.Salinger--A Writing Life" made permamnent by U.S. Supreme Court

1988 02 Feb

Kevin Sim's The Man Who Shot John Lennon on British ITV Ian Hamiton's, re-written, In Search of J.D.Salinger

1996 08 Dec

News of listing of "Hapworth16, 1924" at amazon.com on Bananafish List by Sundeep Dougal (Ha, my pathetic attempts to share "top-billing!")

1997

Media breaks the news of Hapworth release. Hapworth yet to be published.

The above is ofcourse in its evolutionary stages, drawing primarily on the following sources:

J.D.Salinger, Revisited by Warren French
In Search of J.D.Salinger by Ian Hamilton
Salinger, Ed. by Henry Anatole Grunwald
Bananafish Mailing List

I hope to get down to editing, updating and branching it out to link it with details.