Background
Koenig was born in New York City, New York, the son of Bobby Bass, a psychotherapist, and Robin Koenig, a set dresser on film and TV productions. His family is Jewish, and came to the U.S. from Eastern Europe (including Romania); Koenig had a Bar Mitzvah. He grew up in Northern New Jersey and attended Glen Ridge High School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His parents lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan before moving to New Jersey. Ezra has a younger sister, Emma Koenig, who is the author of the blog "F*CK! i'm in my twenties". He began writing music around the age of ten or eleven, and his first song ever was titled "Bad Birthday Party." He attended Columbia University where he majored in English literature.
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