January 31

This Day at the New Yorker

        

Writer J. D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in The New Yorker on this day in 1948.
The story deals with the final day in the life of Seymour Glass.

Writer John O'Hara born on this day in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
He published 247 short stories for the New Yorker.


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