J.D. Salinger vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
J.D. Salinger
1919 – 2010
Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work.
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I…"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 – 1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Jazz Age, best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which critiques the American Dream. His work captured the excesses and disillusionment of 1920s America.
"Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few y…"