Mark Evanier - Early Life

Early Life

Evanier is of ethnic Jewish heritage. He chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the Internal Revenue Service and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

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