JD Salinger biography
Born Jerome David Salinger on January 1, 1919 in New York City, New York, only son to Sol and Marie Salinger. Very little is known about Mr. Salinger’s personal life, as he is a firm recluse currently living alone in a cottage in Cornish, New Hampshire, and is insistent on keeping information about himself private. What little is known about him, however, is rather interesting. As a child, Mr. Salinger lived in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York. He attended a few private prep schools, each of which he dropped out of for his failing grades. As a teenager, he attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. Rumor has it that the idea to attend the academy was his. For college Mr. Salinger attended, briefly, New York University, which he left for refusing to apply himself. He also attended Ursinus College and Columbia University, where he wrote and had published his first work, “The Young Folks”.For eight years following that publication, Salinger suffered through rejection after rejection by the magazine the New Yorker, until the submission of, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” in 1948, which flew through the reviews and checkpoints of the magazine st
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Approximate Word count = 1433
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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