Those are always very hard questions, because it’s a combination of influence and resistance, which is difficult to sort out. How do you think your parents shaped your perspectives on the world? So, for example, by the time I was, eight or nine, on Friday evenings my father and I would read Hebrew literature together. But they were all part of what amounted to kind of a Hebrew ghetto, Jewish ghetto in Philadelphia - not a physical ghetto, it was scattered around the city, but cultural ghetto. There’s a Graduate University of Jewish Studies, Dropsie College, which he taught in. My father sort of ran the Hebrew school system in the city of Philadelphia, and my mother taught in it. My father was, professionally, a Hebrew scholar, and worked with Hebrew grammar. Your parents both were Hebrew grammarians and taught Hebrew school? When I was done with that, went over to MIT, and I’ve been in Boston ever since, around Boston since about 1950. I stayed there until I went through undergraduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, then went on to Harvard for a couple of a years in a research fellowship, and graduate school. Activism, Anarchism, and Power Noam Chomsky interviewed by Harry Kreisler Conversations with History, March 22, 2002
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As a child was chased by a moose in Alaska. Qualified for marksman in the Australian army. Holder of the Guinness World Record for youngest author of a bestselling series. His four “Inheritance” books - “Eragon,” “Eldest,” “Brisingr” and “Inheritance” - have sold more than 40 million copies, according to his publisher. Christopher Paolini is the creator of the World of Eragon and the Fractalverse. Paolini, 39, had yet to turn 20 when his debut novel “Eragon” made him one of the world’s most popular fantasy writers. “I’ve had a ridiculous amount of (sometimes devilish) fun writing MURTAGH, and I can’t wait for readers to experience it for themselves. 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