Author J.D. Salinger died at 91. He was best known for writing, “The Catcher in the Rye.”
According to the ” title=”Jewish Virtual Library”>Jewish Virtual Library explains his complicated Jewish background:
J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in Manhattan, New York. He was born to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. His mother changed her name to Miriam and passed as Jewish when she married; J.D. did not find out that his mother was not Jewish until just after his bar mitzvah.