Salinger, J.D. - Salinger at Work
Salinger at Work
GETTING ESTABLISHED
In an author’s note for the publication of his story “Down at the Dinghy” in Harper’s in 1949, Salinger said, “I just started to write when I was eighteen or so and never stopped.”1 He took the most important step in his literary career when he was twenty and enrolled in Whit Burnett’s story-writing course at Columbia University in the spring of 1939. Salinger must have known that Burnett’s course was highly regarded and that his magazine, Story, had an excellent reputation. Burnett had an eye for writing talent, and Story had published the early work of several writers who later became highly successful, such as Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, William Saroyan,...
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