Lawrence M. Schoen
| Memory AlphaLawrence M. Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but brought up in California. While he was young, he worked with his father at swap meets each weekend. This ended when he went to college to study psychology and linguistics. He graduated with a Doctoral degree from Kansas and began teaching and research. He currently lives “near Philadelphia with his wife, Valerie, who is neither a psychologist nor a Klingon speaker.”