Editing Richard Scarry (section)

==Early life and education==
Scarry was born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] to Mary McClure and John Scarry Sr., who were of Irish-American ancestry and ran a small department store chain.<ref name=NYHistS_HuckScarry>{{cite web| author=Stevenson, Alice| title=Meet Busytown's Favorite Son, Huck Scarry| date=December 9, 2019| publisher=[[New York Historical Society]]| url=https://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2019/12/meet-busytowns-favorite-son-huck-scarry/| accessdate=2021-11-16| archive-date=2021-11-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117035503/https://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2019/12/meet-busytowns-favorite-son-huck-scarry/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media| author=Mapes, Melissa|authorlink=Melissa Mapes| title=Richard Scarry's Best Luck Ever| publisher=[[Literary Traveller]]| date=July 1, 2012}}</ref> Scarry had four siblings: older brother John Jr., younger sister Barbara, and younger brothers Edward and Leo.<ref name="1940 U.S. Census, familysearch.com">1940 U.S. Census, familysearch.com</ref> The family enjoyed a comfortable life at their 32 Melville Avenue home in the [[Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester]] neighborhood,<ref name="1940 U.S. Census, familysearch.com"/> even during the [[Great Depression]].

Following high school, Scarry enrolled in [[Boston Business School]], but dropped out in 1938.<ref>{{cite book| publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]| title=[[American National Biography]]| volume=19| date=1999| page=350}}</ref><ref name="gwern.net">{{cite web| publisher=| title=Richard Scarry| author=Branwen, Gwern| url=https://www.gwern.net/docs/rotten.com/library/bio/authors/richard-scarry/index.html| accessdate=2021-11-16| archive-date=2021-09-21| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921085327/https://www.gwern.net/docs/rotten.com/library/bio/authors/richard-scarry/index.html| url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Gwern Branwen's sub-blog "rotten.com" is of questionable accuracy, as discussed in "Talk" page. ACWilson9. --> He then studied at the [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston]], the [[Archipenko Art School]] in [[Woodstock, New York]], and the [[Eliot O'Hara]] Watercolor School in [[Goose Rocks]], [[Kennebunkport, Maine]],<ref>{{cite book| author=Dinneen, Marcia B.| authorlink=Marcia B. Dinneen| title=Scarry, Richard McClure (05 June 1919–30 April 1994)| chapter=Scarry, Richard McClure (1919-1994), author and illustrator| year=2000| publisher=[[American National Biography]]| doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1603321| url=https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1603321| accessdate=2021-11-16| archive-date=12 October 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012042136/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1603321| url-status=live}}</ref> before being [[draft (conscription)|drafted]] into the U.S. Army in 1942.