Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at SNL. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her autobiographical book Bossypants, which topped the The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. Fey attended Cardington Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby. She also anonymously wrote the newspaper’s satirical column, The Acorn. While performing shows with the Second City in 1997, Fey submitted several scripts to NBC’s variety show Saturday Night Live (SNL), at the request of its head writer Adam McKay, a former performer at Second City. She was hired as a writer for SNL following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved to New York. Fey told The New Yorker, “I’d had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter.” Originally, Fey “struggled” at SNL.