Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City. Salinger is the second child of Sol Salinger, a prosperous Jewish importer, and Miriam Jillich Salinger, a gentile of Scotch-Irish descent. Raised in upscale Manhattan apartment buildings, Salinger attended New York public schools before enrolling at the exclusive McBurney School on the upper West Side in 1932.
Remembered as an anti-social, introspective, and academically unexceptional student, Salinger was then sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1936. While at Valley Forge, he contributed to the school's literary magazine, also served as literary editor of his senior yearbook and began to compose his first stories.
In 1937 Salinger went to New
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