Editing Steven Wright (section)

== Early life, family  and education ==
Wright was born at [[Mount Auburn Hospital]] in  [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], and grew up in [[Burlington, Massachusetts]],<ref name="newsday">{{cite web |url= http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etent2812804889may26,0,6077734.story |title=Comedian Steven Wright plays Westbury Sunday |first=Frank |last=Lovece |author-link=Frank Lovece |work=[[Newsday]] |location=Melville, NY |url-status=dead |date=May 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531055218/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etent2812804889may26,0,6077734.story |archive-date=May 31, 2009 |access-date=March 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=A Famous Former Burlington Resident| date= March 3, 2010| first=Gail| last= Waterhouse| newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> one of four children of Lucille "Dolly" (née Lomano) and Alexander K. Wright.<ref name= "newsday" /><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sullivanfuneralhome.net/bio.aspx?id=301 |title=Obituary |publisher= Sullivan Funeral Home | website = sullivanfuneralhome.net |date=January 9, 2008 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217055050/http://www.sullivanfuneralhome.net/bio.aspx?id=301 |archive-date= December 17, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cover Story; The (sur)real Steven Wright; He laughs easily, works hard for material |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |date=August 1, 1987 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7C2D383BE2F59&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=February 22, 2010}}</ref> He was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stevenwright.com/latest/seattletimes20020517.html |title=Latest |website=StevenWright.com |date=May 17, 2002 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120418065330/http://www.stevenwright.com/latest/seattletimes20020517.html |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> His mother was [[Italian Americans|Italian American]], and his father of Scottish descent.<ref name=ref09>{{cite news| last=Dana| first=Rebecca| title=Steven Wright on Letterman, Rembrandt and Being Short| newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]| date=June 5, 2009| url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/05/steven-wright-on-letterman-rembrandt-and-being-short/tab/article/| access-date=February 22, 2010| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Wright's father worked as an electronics technician who "tested a lot of stuff" for [[NASA]] during the [[Apollo program|Apollo space program]]. When that program ended, he worked as a truck driver.<ref name="newsday"/>

Wright attended [[Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts)|Middlesex Community College]] in [[Bedford, Massachusetts]], for two years to earn his [[associate degree]], then continued his education at [[Emerson College]].<ref name=bostonglobe>{{cite news| last=Crane| first=Joyce Pellino| title= Laugh Track: For more than five decades, Emerson College has been putting comics on the road to success| url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/10/07/laugh_track/| newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]| date=October 7, 2007| access-date= November 3, 2021}}</ref> He graduated from Emerson in 1978.<ref name=bostonglobe/>