Author JD Salinger was stationed in Tiverton in 1944,where he worked on his landmark novel, which may have informed Holden Caulfields’s dream of escaping city lifeDevon, or which final week laid claim to the literary roots of Dracula,has now been named as fragment of the inspiration for a classic work of American literature, JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
A BBC Radio 4 documentary to be broadcast on Thursday will see brand Hodkinson, and who edited a biography of Salinger,travel to Tiverton in Devon, where Salinger spent three months in 1944 with the US military in the build-up to D-Day. The reclusive writer records some of the details of his time in Devon in the short story For Esme – With Love and Squalor, or which tells of an American soldier and writer in Devon in 1944 who meets a young girl and her brother.
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Source: theguardian.com