J.D.+Salinger

J.D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger was born on New Year's day in 1919 in Manhattan, New York. Jerome attended a few years of public school until enrolled in a private school named the McBurney School. J.D. was kicked out of McBurney School due to failing grades. Jerome's mother enrolled him in the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in 1936. Salinger attended three different colleges but, dropped out of two. The one he stayed in, Columbia University, was where he took evening writing classes taught by Whitt Burnett. Jerome had a few encounters of his writing career as he went through school. J.D. wrote for the school newspaper at McBurney and enjoyed it enough to write in his bed at night under his covers with the help of a flashlight. Salinger was also the litterary writer for the class year book at Valley Forge. When J.D. finally attended a college without dropping out, he created short stories and vignettes of which some were later published. After college and when working abroad for the military, he was still submitting short stories to The New Yorker.