1944
From Bananafish
Events from 1944.
Contents |
Births
Deaths
- Vincent Caulfield is killed
Publications
- February 26, Both Parties Concerned published by the Saturday Evening Post
- April 15, Soft Boiled Sergeant published by the Saturday Evening Post
- July 15, Last Day of the Last Furlough published by the Saturday Evening Post
- November/December, Once a Week Won't Kill You published by Story magazine
Other events
- July 5, Matilda Gladwaller sends Babe Gladwaller a letter, featured in A Boy in France
- A Young Man in a Stuffed Shirt rejected by Story magazine
- Boy Standing in Tennessee completed
- The Magic Foxhole completed
- What Got Into Curtis in the Woodshed submitted by Story magazine but unpublished
- May, Total War Diary completed
- September, Two Lonely Men completed
- September, Jerome David Salinger meets Ernest Hemmingway
- Jerome David Salinger proposes a short story collection to be called The Young Folks
- Jerome David Salinger attends Counter-Intelligence training at Tiverton, Devonshire, England; later lands on Utah Beach, Normandy, on D Day and participates in five campaigns in Europe
