Editing Max Shulman (section)

===Early life and career===
Shulman was born in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul, Minnesota]], and raised in the city's Selby-Dale neighborhood. His father Abraham, a house painter, and his mother Bessie Karchmar were Jewish immigrants from Belarus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mnopedia.org/person/shulman-max-1919-1988| title=Max Shulman| author=Paul Nelson | website= www.mnopedia.org | access-date=June 20, 2020}}</ref>

As a student at the [[University of Minnesota]], where he was classmate of [[Thomas Heggen]], [[Thomas R. St. George]] and Norman Katkov,<ref>{{Cite journal|url= https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/52577 |title= Remember Minnesota's Writing Boom?| author=Jay Walljasper  |volume= 80-81| issue=7–8| pages= 18–22| journal= University of Minnesota Alumni Association Magazine |format= pdf| date= May–June 1981|hdl= 11299/52577| access-date= June 16, 2020}}</ref> Shulman wrote a column for the [[Minnesota Daily]] as well as pieces for ''[[Ski-U-Mah (magazine)|Ski-U-Mah]]'', the [[college humor magazine]]. His writing humorously exaggerated campus culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://umnalumni.org/UMAA-stories/History-Max-Shulman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514005925/http://umnalumni.org/UMAA-stories/History-Max-Shulman|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 14, 2017|title=Max Shulman. Dig It?|website=umnalumni.org|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref> Shortly after Shulman graduated in 1942, an agent from Doubleday persuaded Shulman to send him some clips, which resulted in the campus satire ''[[Barefoot Boy with Cheek]]'', a surprise 1943 bestseller. In 1947 Shulman adapted ''Barefoot Boy'' into a [[Barefoot Boy with Cheek|musical of the same name]].