Editing Jonathan Schell (section)

===Early life and education===
Schell was born in [[New York City]] on August 21, 1943, to Orville Hickock Schell Jr., a lawyer who chaired [[Americas Watch]], and Marjorie Bertha.<ref name="Bernstein2014">{{cite web |last1=Bernstein |first1=Adam |date=2014-03-26 |title=Writer opposed nuclear arms race <!--first published online with the title "Jonathan Schell, author 'The Fate of the Earth,' dies at 70"--> |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2014/03/26/02c76602-b51a-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html |url-access=subscription |website=The Washington Post |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327170850/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2014/03/26/02c76602-b51a-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html |archive-date=2014-03-27}}</ref><ref name="Fox2014">{{cite web |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |author-link1=Margalit Fox |date=2014-03-26 |title=Jonathan Schell, 70, Author on War in Vietnam and Nuclear Age, Dies <!--first published online with the title "Jonathan Schell, Author Who Explored War, Dies at 70"--> |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/jonathan-schell-author-who-explored-war-dies-at-70.html |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327072517/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/us/jonathan-schell-author-who-explored-war-dies-at-70.html |archive-date=2014-03-27}}</ref> His siblings included a sister, Suzanne, and a brother, [[Orville Schell]], a former Dean of the [[University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism]] and, {{As of|lc=y|since=y|2006|post=,}} the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations at [[Asia Society]] in New York.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin |author-link1=Robin Pogrebin |date=2006-09-26 |title=Journalist and China Expert to Head Center at Asia Society |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/journalist-and-china-expert-to-head-center-at-asia-society.html |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204035548/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/journalist-and-china-expert-to-head-center-at-asia-society.html |archive-date=2024-12-04}}</ref> He studied at [[Dalton School]] in New York and graduated from [[The Putney School]] in Vermont.<ref name="Fox2014" /> In 1965 he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Far Eastern history. He then spent a year learning Japanese at the [[International Christian University]] in Tokyo.<ref name="Bernstein2014" />