J. D. Salinger Research Paper

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J.D Salinger, born Jerome David Salinger, was born in New York on January 1, 1919. Salinger had two older siblings who were the children of Sol and Miriam Salinger. When Salinger was going to school, he flunked out of a school near his home called McBurney School. After flunking out of McBurney School, Salinger was shipped to a school in Pennsylvania called Valley Forge Military School. After Salinger graduated from Valley Forge Military School, he went back to New York to go to New York University and then went to Europe to learn a different language and learn about import business, but when he got there, he wasn’t really interested in import business. After the trip from Europe, he went back to Pennsylvania to go to Ursinus College. Afterwards,
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