Editing Eleanor Clift (section)

==Early years==
Eleanor Roeloffs was born in the New York City borough of [[Brooklyn]],<ref name="evans" /> the daughter of [[Germans|German]] immigrants from the island of [[Föhr]] in the [[North Sea]].<ref name="bookref1">{{cite book|last=Clift|first=Eleanor|title=Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics|publisher=PublicAffairs|year=2009|page=39|isbn=978-0-465-01280-0}}</ref> She grew up in the [[Jackson Heights, Queens|Jackson Heights]] neighborhood of [[Queens]], where her parents ran a [[delicatessen]] in [[Sunnyside, Queens|Sunnyside]].<ref>Solomon, Deborah. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02wwln-Q4-t.html "Questions for Eleanor Clift: Grande Dame"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 2, 2008. Accessed May 28, 2009. "Where are you from? I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and my father had a deli, Roeloffs Deli, in Sunnyside."</ref> Clift was raised a [[Lutheran]].<ref name="clevelandref1">{{cite news|last=Norman|first=Michael|title=Eleanor Clift explores the personal and public sides of death in new memoir|work=The Plain Dealer|date=2008-04-02|url=http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/04/courtesy_of_eleanor_clifttom_b.html|access-date=2010-03-09}}</ref> She attended both [[Hofstra University]] and [[Hunter College]], but left both schools without a degree.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.respectability.org/2017/11/eleanor-clift-fellows/ |title=RespectAbility Board Member Eleanor Clift Talks About Her Journalism and Philanthropy Journey |last=Oweis |first=Zein |date=2017-11-27 |website=respectability.org  |access-date=2022-11-17 |quote=I did do an internship and I have never taken a journalism course in my life. In fact, I never even had a college degree...}}</ref>