page_title: John Curl
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: John Curl / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Writer and carpenter John Curl
context_page_description: John Curl is an American poet, memoirist, translator, author, activist and historian.
context_section_description: Curl was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan and rural New Jersey. His family was working class, a mixture of Irish-Catholic, English-Protestant, and Romanian-Austrian Jew. He attended CCNY, with a semester at the Sorbonne, and earned a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature.
caption: John Curl speaking at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2013
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