Matt Salinger

Salinger was born February 13, 1960, in Windsor, Vermont, to author J. D. Salinger, known for Catcher in the Rye, and psychologist Alison Claire Douglas.^[1][2] His maternal grandfather was British art critic Robert Langton Douglas.^[3] He has one sister, Margaret Salinger.^[4][5] His father was of paternal Lithuanian-Jewish descent.^[6][7][8]

Salinger attended North Country School in Lake Placid, New York, for junior high school. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and attended Princeton University before graduating from Columbia University with a degree in art history and drama.^[1]

Salinger made his film debut in 1984 in Revenge of the Nerds and played Captain America in the 1990 film Captain America.^[9]

He subsequently appeared in films including What Dreams May Come^[10] and on television in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,^[11] and 24.^[12]

Salinger has produced several independent films, including Let the Devil Wear Black,^[13] and Mojave Moon.^{[citation needed]}

Salinger made his Broadway debut in 1985 in Bill C. Davis's short-lived Dancing in the End Zone,^[14] performing at the Ritz Theater alongside veteran actresses Pat Carroll and Dorothy Lyman. In 2000, he produced the off-Broadway play The Syringa Tree,^[15][16][17] which received a Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award, Outer Critic's Circle Award,^[18][19] and the Village Voice Obie Award for Best Play of the Year in 2001.^[20]

Salinger married jewelry designer Betsy Jane Becker in 1985. They live in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and have two sons, Gannon and Avery.^[21]

Unlike his sister, Margaret, who wrote a 1999 memoir about her childhood titled Dream Catcher, Salinger has sought to protect his father's privacy.^[4] A few weeks after Margaret's book was published, Salinger wrote a letter to The New York Observer, criticizing his sister's "gothic tales of our supposed childhood."^[5]