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Where was Richard Hell born?
Richard Lester Meyers was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1949
Where did Richard Hell go to school?
Hell attended the Sanford School in Delaware for one year, where he became friends with Tom Miller, who later changed his name to Tom Verlaine.
Was Richard Hell interested in music as a young child?
Hell never finished high school, instead moving to New York City to make his way as a poet.
Are there any other interesting aspects about Richard Hell besides moving to NYC to become a poet?
In New York he met fellow young poet David Giannini, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for several months, where Giannini and Meyers co-founded Genesis:Grasp.
Where were Richard Hell's poems published?
Before he was 21, his own poems were published in numerous periodicals, ranging from Rolling Stone to the New Directions Annuals.
Who were Richard Hell's parents?
His father, a secular Jew, was an experimental psychologist, researching animal behavior. He died when Hell was 7 years old. Hell was then raised by his mother.

Question: Was his mother in his life?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Richard Hell's mother in his life?