Sylvia Salinger & J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger and Sylvia Salinger
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Sylvia Salinger and J.D. Salinger are divorced after a marriage of 3 months.

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American Writer J.D. Salinger was born Jerome David Salinger on 1st January, 1919 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA and passed away on 27th Jan 2010 Cornish, New Hampshire, USA aged 91. He is most remembered for The Catcher in the Rye. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
MarriedOct 1945 - 1946 3 months, 2 days
Total 1945 - 1946 1 year


The next woman that attracted Salinger was Sylvia Welter, who was surprisingly the same age as the young Salinger himself— twenty-six. Salinger was introduced to Welter when he was stationed in Germany as a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps— a group whose job was to gather information on the Nazis. Welter was a woman full of secrets: she was both German and French, yet she often chose to hide the fact that she was German whenever it was convenient. She was smart (she earned a doctorate in medicine), pretty, and very mysterious. Salinger and Welter married in October of 1945, barely escaping the punishments of the non-fraternization law by forging Welter’s identification papers to make her appear as though she wasn’t German.
The couple moved back to New York with Salinger’s parents, who weren’t thrilled about this new addition to the family. Welter was “the enemy,” and she wasn’t welcome in the Salinger household. The couple often fought and were generally unhappy together. What made the situation worse was that Welter was rumored to have been a member of the Gestapo, the secret Nazi police who were the very kind of people that Salinger had been looking to capture while he was stationed postwar. Their relationship shattered when Salinger found this out, and Welter woke up one morning to a plane ticket to Germany left on her breakfast plate. The two separated, yet still had “telepathic communications” with one another and visited each other in dreams, according to Salinger. After their eight month affair, during which Salinger did not write, Salinger was finally able to write again. Welter became a distant memory—the first of many women who dared to try to make themselves more important than his work.

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Relationship Timeline

1946 - Breakup

1946 - Divorce

October, 1945 - Marriage

1945 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Sylvia Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Sylvia Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Age (at start of relationship)
26
26
Occupation
Doctor
Writer
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Brown - Dark
Nationality
German
American

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