How did he feel about the Viet Nam War?
During the Viet Nam War he expressed contempt for the military and caustically ridiculed a few young men who were about to register for the draft. * What were his publisher problems? All writers see rejection slips before they achieve success but Salinger’s journey down that road seemed particularly rough. Paul Alexander’s book chronicles this progression well. Instead of a sudden aversion toward editors and publishers, it was gradual and not as unjustified as one might think. * What was he like as a student growing up? He lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as a child and attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. Before the military academy, he flunked out of a few private schools for not even trying to do the work. Attending the military academy was probably his idea. He probably wanted to get away from his family. His mother, not his father, took him to the entrance interview and he was matriculated in just a few days. Salinger was the manager of the fencing team, jus
