Editing Mark Z. Danielewski (section)

==Personal life==
Danielewski was born in New York City to [[Tad Danielewski]],<ref name=":8">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-13-mn-1148-story.html|title=Tad Z. Danielewski; Founder of Actors Workshop|date=January 13, 1993|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> a Polish avant-garde film director, and Priscilla Decatur Machold.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Blush and Colbath|first=Steven and Thomas|date=1995|title=Poe|url=http://www.secondsmagazine.com/pages/mags.php|journal=Seconds Magazine}}</ref> Mark was Tad's second child and his first with Priscilla; Mark's sister Anne, also known as [[Poe (singer)|Poe]], was born two years later. The Danielewski family moved continuously for Tad's various film projects, and by the age of 10, Mark had lived in six countries: Ghana, India, Spain, Switzerland, Britain and the United States.<ref name=":2" /> When he was 10 years old, the family settled in [[Provo, Utah]], where he and his sister were raised from thereon.<ref name=":18"/> Danielewski has said his family's frequent relocations in his early years helped him appreciate creativity in all its forms and showed him that "there was much to be learned out there."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Clark|first1=Jonathan Russell|title=Did Mark Z. Danielewski Just Reinvent the Novel?|url=http://lithub.com/did-mark-z-danielewski-just-reinvent-the-novel/|website=Literary Hub|access-date=23 March 2016|date=2015-05-13}}</ref>

In 1985 Danielewski, aged 19, visited his half-brother, who was living on Rue des Belles Feuilles in Paris. Here, he began writing on a manual typewriter and enjoying the actual process of writing for the first time. During this period he wrote a story called "Where Tigers Dance", which he has called "so unfinished it didn't deserve to be called incomplete", but has said that it continued "to roam around" in his imagination.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |url=http://chuckpalahniuk.net/interviews/mark-danielewski |title=The Brash Boy, The Misunderstood Girl and The Sonogram – The Books of Mark Z. Danielewski |last=Carpenter |first=Kasey |date=September 15, 2010 |website=The Cult: The Official fan site of Chuck Palahniuk |publisher=VEM |via=Wayback Machine |access-date=April 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410094346/http://chuckpalahniuk.net/interviews/mark-danielewski |archive-date=10 April 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1988 Danielewski graduated from [[Yale]] with a degree in English Literature;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://markzdanielewski.info/mzd/iuniverse/cs_view.asp-path=f--news&articles-features-1226.html&CircleID.htm|title=The House that Danielewski Built: Is House of Leaves the Next Ulysses?|website=iUniverse.com|last1=Taylor|first1=Nelson|access-date=23 March 2016}}</ref> he had studied under [[John Hollander]], [[Stuart Moulthrop]], and [[John Guillory]]. He was also inspired by [[Harold Bloom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-teicholz/a-danielewski-halloween_b_1033910.html|title=A Danielewski Halloween|website=Huffington Post|last1=Teicholz|first1=Tom|access-date=23 March 2016|date=2011-10-27}}</ref> In 1989 he moved to [[Berkeley, California]], where he enrolled in an intensive Latin course at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlyrevolutions.com/|title=Only Revolutions' Author Page|date=2006|website=onlyrevolutions.com|publisher=VEM|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.markzdanielewski.info/hol/20000110_83905.html|title=A Budding Crop of First Fiction|website=Publishers Weekly|last1=Mantell|first1=Suzanne|access-date=31 March 2016}}</ref>  He then pursued graduate studies at the [[USC School of Cinema-Television]] in Los Angeles.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/|title=Mark Z. Danielewski Forums|date=February 29, 2000|website=Mark Z. Danielewski Forums|publisher=VEM|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> During this time he became involved with ''[[Derrida (film)|Derrida]]'', a documentary about the career and philosophy of [[Algeria]]n-born French [[Literary criticism|literary critic]] and philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]]. Danielewski was an assistant editor, sound technician and cameraman,<ref name=":10">''[[Derrida (film)|Derrida]]''. Dir. Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. Perf. Jacques Derrida. Zeitgeist, 2002.</ref> and can be seen adjusting the sound equipment in Derrida's suit jacket at one point in the film.<ref name=":10" /> He graduated with an MFA in 1993, the year his father died.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":11" /> It was also the year he had the idea of a house bigger on the inside than the outside, an image which would become his first novel, ''[[House of Leaves]]''.<ref name=":9" />

Danielewski has been a cat lover throughout his life. Cats show up in myriad ways throughout his works and are a main topic in his  series ''The Familiar''. In January 2016,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/MarkZDanielewski/photos/a.194373490607281.51291.108246949219936/1081419101902711/?type=3&theater They're here (cat adoption)]. Facebook. 9 January 2016.</ref> Danielewski adopted two [[Devon Rex]] kittens, Archimedes and Meifumado,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/MarkZDanielewski/photos/a.194373490607281.51291.108246949219936/1098033800241241/?type=3&theater Archimedes & Meifumado]. Facebook. 9 February 2016.</ref> after his previous Devon Rex companions, Sibyl<ref>[http://io9.gizmodo.com/5645638/mark-z-danielewski-on-his-new-cat-centric-book-project-and-why-he-wont-let-house-of-leaves-be-a-movie Mark Z. Danielewski on his new cat-centric book project]. io9. 23 September 2010.</ref> and Carl<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-z-danielewski/where-i-like-to-read_6_b_1981059.html Where I Like to Read]. Huffington Post. 18 December 2012.</ref> died.