Editing Susan Orlean (section)

==Early life==
Orlean born in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], and was raised in nearby [[Shaker Heights, Ohio|Shaker Heights]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Orlean |first1=Susan |title=Growing Up in the Library: Learning and relearning what it means to have a book on borrowed time. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/growing-up-in-the-library |access-date=October 27, 2018 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=October 5, 2018}}</ref> the daughter of Edith (née Gross 1923–2016)<ref>{{cite web |title=Orlean, Edith |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/community/lifecycles/obituaries/orlean-edith/article_c8f178f0-cf43-11e5-aefb-2b4d205acad2.html |website=[[Cleveland Jewish News]] |language=en |date=9 February 2016}}</ref> and Arthur Orlean (1915–2007).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tarullo |first1=Hope |editor1-last=Thompson |editor1-first=Clifford |title=[[Current Biography Yearbook]] |date=2003 |publisher=The H. W. Wilson Company|location=New York |pages=391–394 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiography0000unse_v7g5/page/390/mode/2up |chapter=Orlean, Susan}}</ref> She has a sister and a brother. Her family is [[Jewish]]. Her mother's family is from [[Hungarian Jews|Hungary]] and her father's family from [[Polish Jews|Poland]]. Her father was an attorney and businessman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arthur E. Orlean |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/article_fd378f4a-b84d-5637-8154-8aac3f665f0c.html |website=[[Cleveland Jewish News]] |language=en |date=10 August 2007}}</ref>

Orlean graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] with honors in 1976,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2012-03-15|title=Six to receive honorary degrees at U-M spring commencement ceremonies|url=https://news.umich.edu/six-to-receive-honorary-degrees-at-u-m-spring-commencement-ceremonies/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=University of Michigan News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Art of the Profile with Susan Orlean |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9FPXCndJlU |website=[[YouTube]] |publisher=USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |date=27 April 2011}}</ref> studying literature and history. After college she moved to [[Portland, Oregon]], and was planning on going to law school, when she began writing for the ''[[Willamette Week]]''.<ref name=":0" />