Early Life and Family
Gordon attended Phillips Academy, but left without graduating in 1952. Later, in 1959, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English with honors from the University of Arizona, where he met his first wife, Loretta Frances Fokes. They married in November 1956 and together had 3 children.
Following Lish's graduation, the family moved to San Francisco; here Lish had a year of graduate study at San Francisco State University in 1960. In Early 1961, Candido Santogrossi and Lish founded a new Pacific Coast avant-garde literary journal, The Chrysalis Review.
He is a father of four (Jennifer, Rebecca, Ethan, and Atticus), and a grandfather of six (Anne, and Carla, children of Jennifer; Pearl and Ezra, children of Rebecca; and Nina and Isaac, children of Ethan).
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