Personal Life
Shawn is the son of William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker, and journalist Cecille Shawn (née Lyon). His brother, Allen, is a composer.
His longtime companion is writer Deborah Eisenberg.
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“There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“And he thought to himself...., ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 12:17-20.
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