Editing David Mamet (section)

== Early life and education ==
Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Lenore June (née Silver), a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, a labor attorney. He is [[Jewish]]. His paternal grandparents were [[Polish Jews]].<ref name=tt>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/theatre-dance/article/david-mamet-on-trump-the-harvey-weinstein-scandal-and-his-new-novel-chicago-kq7gmcnf9|title=David Mamet on Trump, the Harvey Weinstein scandal and his new novel, Chicago |work=[[The Times]]|date=March 31, 2018|access-date=March 11, 2019|last1=Hoyle |first1=Ben }}</ref> Mamet has said his parents were communists and described himself as a "[[red diaper baby]]".<ref name = Akbar>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/feb/23/trump-great-job-president-david-mamet-free-speech-gender-politics-election-rigging-woods|title = 'Trump did a great job as president' – David Mamet on free speech, gender politics and rigged elections|last = Akbar|first = Afira|work = [[The Guardian]]|date = February 23, 2022|accessdate = April 11, 2022}}</ref> One of his earliest jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's [[London House (Chicago)|London House]] and [[The Second City]].  He also worked as an actor, editor for [[Oui (magazine)|''Oui'' magazine]] and as a cab-driver.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-david-mamet-chicago-novel-kogan-sidewalks-0225-story.html |title=David Mamet talks about his new book 'Chicago,' all about gangsters and Tribune reporters |last=Kogan |first=Rick |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=February 25, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref>  He was educated at the progressive [[Francis W. Parker School (Chicago)|Francis W. Parker School]] and at [[Goddard College]] in [[Plainfield, Vermont]]. At the [[Chicago Public Library |Chicago Public Library Foundation]] 20th anniversary fundraiser in 2006, though, Mamet announced "My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mamet|first=David|title=My Alma Mater|journal=American Libraries|date=2006|pages=44–46}}</ref>

After a move to Chicago's North Side, Mamet met theater director [[Robert Sickinger]], and began to work occasionally at Sickinger's [[Hull House|Hull House Theatre]]. Thus began Mamet's lifelong involvement with the theater.<ref name="Nadel2016">{{cite book|author=I. Nadel|title=David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVsYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|date=April 30, 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-230-37872-8|pages=26–27}}</ref>