![]() ![]() ![]() After receiving his BA in 1935, Bester decided to continue his education by enrolling as a post-graduate student at Columbia University to study law and later at New York University to study protozoology, but he terminated his studies and dropped out of both universities before completing a degree. When he came of age, Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he studied a wide variety of subjects and, in 1934, joined the prestigious Philomathean Society, one of the oldest literary societies in the United States. His home life was characterized from an early age by a liberal attitude towards religion and society in Bester's own words: "I was born a Jew but the family had a laisser faire attitude toward religion and let me pick my own faith for myself. His father, a shoe salesman, provided modestly for the family which, as Bester himself described it, was hardworking and middle class. Alfred Bester was born on December 18, 1913, in New York City to James J. ![]()
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