Editing Chris Claremont (section)

==Early life==
Claremont was born in [[London]], England.<ref>{{cite web|last=Miller |first=John Jackson |author-link=John Jackson Miller |url=http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays |title=Comics Industry Birthdays |work=[[Comics Buyer's Guide]] |date=June 10, 2005 |location=Iola, Wisconsin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218031356/http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays |archive-date=February 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/chris-claremont/|title= Chris Claremont|year= 2013|publisher= Fantastic Fiction|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130914003217/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/chris-claremont/|archive-date= September 14, 2013|url-status= live|access-date= November 17, 2010}}</ref> His father was an internist and his mother was a pilot and caterer.<ref name=NewYorkMag/> Claremont is [[Jewish]] on his mother's side, and lived in a [[kibbutz]] in [[Israel]] during his youth.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://jewishworldnews.org/good-guys-win-in-the-end-must-we-wait-for-the-30th-century/|title= Good guys win in the end— Must we wait for the 30th century??|first= Larry|last= Wilson|date= September 5, 2012|publisher= Jewishworldnews.org|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131201081739/http://jewishworldnews.org/good-guys-win-in-the-end-must-we-wait-for-the-30th-century/|archive-date= December 1, 2013|url-status= dead|access-date= December 1, 2013|quote= All that changed however in the mid 1970s when writer Chris Claremont came on board. Despite his non-Jewish-sounding name, this London-born, New York-raised lad is Jewish… he even spent time on an Israeli kibbutz in his youth.}}</ref><ref>Klotz, Bryan (June 2009). [http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context=srhonorsprog "Secret Identities: Graphic Literature and the Jewish- American Experience"]. [[University of Rhode Island]]. Retrieved May 24, 2014.</ref> His family moved to the United States when he was three years old,<ref name=TheTimes>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/now-where-was-i-the-uncanny-chris-claremont-on-rejoining-the-x-men-z8tz755sbpc |title=Now where was I? The uncanny Chris Claremont on rejoining the X-Men |first=Owen |last= Vaughan |date=October 30, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131221001423/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/article2432216.ece |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=December 1, 2013 }}</ref> and he was raised primarily on [[Long Island]]. Alienated by the sports-oriented suburbs,<ref name="NewYorkMag"/> his grandmother purchased for him a subscription to ''[[Eagle (comic)|Eagle]]'' when he was a child, and he grew up reading ''[[Dan Dare]]'', finding them more exciting than the [[Batman]] and [[Superman]] comics of the 1950s and early 1960s.<ref name=TheTimes/> He read works by science fiction writers such as [[Robert Heinlein]], as well as writers of other genres such as [[Rudyard Kipling]] and [[C. S. Forester]].<ref name=NewYorkMag/>