- Born
- Birth nameLynn Lester
- Lynn Hershman Leeson was born on June 17, 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Teknolust (2002), Strange Culture (2007) and Conceiving Ada (1997).
- Studied painting at the University of California, Berkeley but dropped out.
- In 1963 graduated with a bachelor's degree in Education, Museum Administration and Fine Arts from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
- Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a biologist.
- Received an honorary Ph.D degree from Pratt Institute in 2023.
- Received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 1972. One aspect of Hershman's master's thesis involved writing art criticism under three pseudonyms: Prudence Juris, Herbert Goode and Gay Abandon.
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