Editing Mark Evanier (section)

==Early life==
Evanier identifies as [[Jewish]].  His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/11/19/tales-childhood-6/|title= Tales of My Childhood #6|first= Mark|last= Evanier|date= November 19, 2013|publisher= News From ME|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120457/http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/11/19/tales-childhood-6/|archive-date= May 17, 2014|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/?s=About+ME |title=About ME |first=Mark |last=Evanier |date=December 7, 2011 |publisher=News From ME |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524011924/http://www.newsfromme.com/?s=About%2BME |archive-date=May 24, 2014 |url-status=live|df=mdy-all|quote='Evanier' is not French; it was probably made up by some Immigration Officer at Ellis Island one day who said, 'Hey, here come some more Jews!  Let's give them real stupid last names!}}</ref> He chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the [[Internal Revenue Service]] and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]''. He graduated from [[University High School (Los Angeles, California)|University High School]] in 1969. Evanier attended [[UCLA]] but left before graduating.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evanier |first1=Mark |title=ASK me: College |url=https://www.newsfromme.com/2019/12/09/ask-me-college/ |website=News from ME |access-date=2021-02-04 |date=December 9, 2019}}</ref>