Editing Chuck Palahniuk (section)

==Early life==
Palahniuk was born in [[Pasco, Washington]], the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.youthquakemagazine.com/author_articles/chuckpalahniuk.htm | title= Chuck Palahniuk | work= YouthQuake Magazine | date= May 27, 2004 | access-date= December 4, 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131210090129/http://youthquakemagazine.com/author_articles/chuckpalahniuk.htm | archive-date= December 10, 2013 | url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memorialsolutions.com/sitemaker/sites/pentti0/obit.cgi?user=cmeader |title=In Memory of Carol Adele Meader | work= memorialsolutions.com |access-date= December 4, 2013}}</ref> He has [[French people|French]] and [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] ancestry.<ref name=":1">{{cite news| first= Arifa |last= Akbar |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/chuck-palahniuk-i-shy-away-from-nonconsensual-violence-7851425.html |title=Chuck Palahniuk: 'I shy away from non-consensual violence' – Features – Books |work= [[The Independent]] |date=June 16, 2012 |access-date= December 4, 2013}}</ref> His paternal grandfather migrated from Ukraine to Canada and then to New York in 1907.<ref>{{cite news| last= Kochetkova| first= Natalia| url= http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article1703451/ |title= Я действительно ходил в группы поддержки для неизлечимо больных| trans-title= I really went to support groups for terminally ill patients| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090505180939/http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article1703451/ |archive-date= May 5, 2009 |format= Interview |language= ru| work= [[Izvestia]]| date= April 29, 2005}}</ref>

Palahniuk grew up living in a mobile home in [[Burbank, Washington]]. His parents separated when he was 14 years old, and they subsequently divorced, often leaving him and his three siblings to live with their maternal grandparents at their cattle ranch in [[eastern Washington]].<ref>{{cite news| last= Jenkins| first= Emily| url= http://www.villagevoice.com/books/9941,jenkins,9013,10.html| title= Extreme Sport| work= [[The Village Voice]]| date= October 19, 1999| access-date= June 21, 2005| archive-date= May 29, 2012| archive-url= https://archive.today/20120529152955/http://www.villagevoice.com/books/9941,jenkins,9013,10.html| url-status= dead}}</ref> Palahniuk acknowledged in a 2007 interview that he is a distant relative of actor [[Jack Palance]] ([[né]] Volodymyr Palahniuk) and his daughter, [[Holly Palance|Holly]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://strandmag.com/interview-with-chuck-palahniuk/|work=[[Strand Bookstore|The Strand Magazine]]|title=Interview with Chuck Palahniuk|last=Gulli|first=Andrew F.|quote= All I know of Palance is the time he did push-ups during the Academy Awards. More recently I’ve been in touch with his daughter, but ours is an occasional letter-writing acquaintance.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250312040158/https://strandmag.com/interview-with-chuck-palahniuk/|archive-date=March 12, 2025}}</ref> and that his family had talked of distant relations with the Palances.<ref>{{cite web|date= June 12, 2007|title=Chuck Palahniuk Answers Your Questions |url= http://www.avclub.com/article/chuck-palahniuk-answers-your-questions-about-every-14113|work=[[The A.V. Club]] | access-date= July 8, 2018}}</ref> 

Palahniuk attended the [[University of Oregon]], graduating with a degree in journalism in 1986. As part of his coursework, he interned at the local [[public broadcasting|public radio]] station, [[KLCC (FM)|KLCC]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rishel |first1=Jay |title=Chuck Palahniuk (1962-) |url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/palahniuk_chuck_1962_/#.Yv63gXbMKDI |website=oregonencyclopedia.org |publisher=Oregon Historical Society |access-date=18 August 2022}}</ref>