Salinger J. D. J. D. Salinger Hand Addressed EnvelopeJ. D. SALINGER, Autograph Envelope Addressed to Rose-Ellen Currie, March 3, 1955, Windsor, Vermont. 1 p., 6.375" x 3.5", with copy of enclosed letter.J. D. Salinger writes to a young writer in New York City and hand addresses this envelope. At the time, Currie worked for McGreevey, Werring & Howell, a company that purchased clothing for retail department stores throughout the nation.Complete Transcript: SalingerRD 2Windsor, VT Miss Rose-Ellen Currie c/o McGreevey, Werring & Howell 225 West 34th St. New York, 1, N.Y. [postmark:] WINDSOR VT. / MAR 3 230 PM 1955J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) was born in Manhattan into a Jewish family, though his mother was a convert. He graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania in 1936 and attended New York University for part of a year. He studied the meat-importing business in Poland and Austria, but left just a month before Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Returning to the United States, he briefly attended Ursinus College and Columbia University. He published his first short story in the magazine "Story" in 1940. He began submitting short stories to "The New Yorker", which rejected most, but accepted "Slight Rebellion off Madison" about a disaffected teenager named Holden Caulfield. However, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor left the story "unpublishable," and it did not appear until 1946. Salinger was drafted in 1942 and saw combat in Europe on D-Day, and at the Battle of the Bulge and other battles. He later served in counter-intelligence in the interrogation of prisoners and in Denazification duty in Germany for six months after the war ended. In 1948, he published "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," which received critical acclaim and earned him a contract with "The New Yorker" for future work. A 1949 film adaptation of one of his short stories failed, and Salinger never permitted film adaptations to be made from his stories. He published his most famous work, "The Catcher in the Rye", in 1951, about protagonist Holden Caulfield's experiences in New York City after his expulsion from a college preparatory school. Although it was widely taught in schools, other schools banned it for its use of swear words and coarse language. Salinger became an adherent of Hinduism in 1952 and gradually withdrew from public view, publishing only a few stories for the rest of the decade. In the early 1960s, he published two volumes of short stories previously published in "The New Yorker". His last published work appeared in 1965. For the next forty-five years, he lived a reclusive life in New Hampshire.Rose-Ellen Currie (1930-2012) was born in New York, the daughter of an electrician and his Scottish wife. In the late 1950s, she wrote and published several short stories, including at least one in "The New Yorker". Around the same time, she left the manuscript of her first novel in a taxi and never recovered it. She worked as a copywriter and vice president for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency for twenty-four years. Currie published her only novel, "Available Light", in 1986, and a collection of short stories, "Moses Supposes", in 1994.This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE.