Early Life and Education
Moore was raised in Chowchilla, California, the son of a teacher and school superintendent who moonlighted as a football coach; he dabbled in writing and drama in high school. He went on to study Government at Cornell University, where he was Literary Secretary of The Kappa Alpha Society, originally on a Navy ROTC scholarship, but failed his senior year after losing interest in his studies. He served for one summer on the frigate USS W. S. Sims. He describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is agnostic.
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