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==Personal life== Shawn is a son of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' editor [[William Shawn]], and the brother of the actor and playwright [[Wallace Shawn]]. His family is of Jewish background. He received a bachelor's degree from [[Harvard University]], a master's degree from Columbia University, and studied in France with [[Nadia Boulanger]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kalvos.org/shawnal.html|title=Allen Shawn, Nonpop New Music Composer|website=kalvos.org|access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref> He teaches composition and music history at [[Bennington College]] and was formerly married to novelist [[Jamaica Kincaid]], with whom he has a son, Harold, and a daughter, Annie. He is married to pianist Yoshiko Sato, with whom he has a son, Noa.<ref name="marriage"/>
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