They appear in the short story collections Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction and Franny and Zooey.
The Glass family, from eldest to youngest: All the children are precocious, and appeared on fictional radio quiz show It's a Wise Child, which, according to the stories, sent all seven Glass children through college.
At least one of the children appeared on the show from 1927 to 1943, beginning with Seymour and Buddy.
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" says that each child appeared on the show under a pseudonym as the Black children.
[3] The Glass family lives in New York City; the children spent most of their childhood in an apartment on the Upper East Side.