This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he handed in a grand total of nothing, but signed up for the class
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the spring of 1939, one J.D. Salinger—Jerry—took Whit Burnett’s creative writing class at Columbia. That semester, he handed in a grand total of nothing, but signed up for the class
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