Editing Paul Graham (programmer) (section)

{{Short description|English programmer, venture capitalist, and writer (born 1964)}}
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| name              = Paul Graham
| image             = Paulgraham 240x320.jpg
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| caption           = Graham in 2011
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1964|11|13}}<ref>{{Cite tweet |url-access=limited |title=Register |user=paulg |number=1613932520105725952|url=https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1613932520105725952}}</ref>
| birth_place       = [[Weymouth, Dorset]], England<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=324331 |title=No; I was born in Weymouth, England. My father's Welsh though. |date=2008-10-05 |website=Hacker News |publisher=Ycombinator |access-date=2020-04-08}}</ref>
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| citizenship       = {{hlist|British|American}}
| fields            = [[Computer science]]
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| education         = [[Cornell University]] ([[B. A.|BA]])<br/>[[Harvard University]] ([[M. S.|MS]], [[PhD]])
| thesis_title      = The State of a Program and Its Uses
| thesis_url        = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/002211322/catalog
| thesis_year       = 1990
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| known_for         = [[Viaweb]]<br>[[Y Combinator]]<br>[[Hacker News]]<br>''[[Hackers & Painters]]''
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| website           = {{Official URL}}
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| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Jessica Livingston]]|2008}}
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'''Paul Graham''' ({{IPAc-en|g|r|æ|m}}; born November 13, 1964)<ref name="DOB LibCongress">{{cite web |title= Graham, Paul 1964- Authorities & Vocabularies (Library of Congress Name Authority File) |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005023870.html |publisher= U.S. Library of Congress |date=11 March 2005 |quote= (Paul Graham, b. Nov. 13, 1964) |access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref> is an English-American [[computer scientist]], [[writer]] and [[Essay|essayist]], [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]] and [[investor]]. His work includes the programming language [[Arc (programming language)|Arc]], the startup [[Viaweb]] (later renamed ''Yahoo! Store''), co-founding the [[startup accelerator]] and seed capital firm [[Y Combinator]], a number of essays and books, and the media webpage [[Hacker News]].   

He is the author of the computer programming books ''[[On Lisp]]'',<ref name="onlisp">{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Paul |title=On Lisp: advanced techniques for Common Lisp |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J |year=1994 |isbn=0-13-030552-9 }}</ref> ''ANSI Common Lisp'',<ref name="ansi">{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Paul |title=ANSI Common Lisp |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J |year=1996 |isbn=0-13-370875-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/ansicommonlisp00grah}}</ref> and ''[[Hackers & Painters]]''.<ref name="hackersandpainters">{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Paul |title=Hackers & painters: big ideas from the computer age |publisher=O'Reilly |location=Sebastopol, California |year=2004 |isbn=0-596-00662-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/hackerspaintersb00grah}}</ref> Technology journalist [[Steven Levy]] has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/y-combinator-has-gone-supernova/ |title=Y Combinator Has Gone Supernova |magazine=Wired|last1=Levy |first1=Steven }}</ref>

Graham was born in England, where he and his family have maintained a permanent residence since 2016. He is also a citizen of the United States, where he attended all of his schooling and lived for 48 years prior to returning to England.