Editing Spalding Gray (section)

==Early life==
Spalding Rockwell Gray was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], Rhode Island, to Rockwell Gray Sr., the treasurer of [[Brown & Sharpe]], and Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" ({{nee}} Horton) Gray. He was the second of three sons; his brothers were Rockwell Jr. and Channing. They were raised in their mother's [[Christian Science]] faith. Gray and his brothers grew up in [[Barrington, Rhode Island|Barrington]], Rhode Island, spending summers at their grandmother's house in [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]], Rhode Island. Rockwell became a literature professor at [[Washington University in St. Louis]], and Channing a journalist in Rhode Island.<ref name="NYmag2"/> After graduating from [[Fryeburg Academy]] in [[Fryeburg, Maine]], Gray enrolled at [[Emerson College]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], as a poetry major. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963. In 1965, Gray moved to [[San Francisco]], [[California]], where he became a speaker and teacher of poetry at the [[Esalen Institute]]. In 1967, while Gray was vacationing in Mexico City, his mother committed suicide at age 52. She had suffered from depression.<ref name="gaby">{{cite news| last = Gaby | first = Wood | title = Shades of Gray | work = [[The Observer]] | date =  December 26, 2004| url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/26/1 | access-date = November 25, 2008}}</ref> After his mother's death, Gray returned to the East Coast and settled permanently in New York City. Gray's books ''[[Impossible Vacation]]'' and ''Sex and Death to the Age 14'' are largely based on his childhood<ref>{{cite web|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/books/books-of-the-times-that-spalding-gray-novel-isn-t-a-monster-after-all.html|author=Kakutani, Michiko|title=Books of The Times; That Spalding Gray Novel Isn't a Monster, After All|date=May 22, 1992|page=25}}</ref> and early adulthood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.startribune.com/performance-spalding-gray-stories-left-to-tell/88267612|newspaper=[[Minnesota Star Tribune]]|title=Performance: 'Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell'|author=Preston, Rohan|date=August 17, 2012}}</ref>