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Black was born and raised in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania,<ref name="barbara">{{cite news | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/movies/film-notes-a-local-connection-to-iron-man-3-639438/?print=1 | title = Film Notes: A local connection to 'Iron Man 3' | date = June 8, 2012 | first = Barbara | last = Vancheri | work = [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | access-date = November 16, 2012 | archive-date = April 12, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160412091950/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/movies/film-notes-a-local-connection-to-iron-man-3-639438/ | url-status = live }}</ref> the son of Paul and Patricia Ann Black. His father was in the printing business,<ref name="filmref">{{cite web | url =http://www.filmreference.com/film/55/Shane-Black.html | title = Shane Black Biography (1961-) | publisher = FilmReference.com | access-date = November 16, 2012}}</ref> and helped Black develop his interest in [[hardboiled]] fiction, including the works of [[Mickey Spillane]] and the [[Matt Helm]] series.<ref name=lat>Greenberg, James. [https://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-19/magazine/tm-3052_1_shane-black/2 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Millionaire]. ''Los Angeles Times''</ref> He grew up in the suburbs of [[Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania|Lower Burrell]] and [[Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania]],<!--NOTE: Source also says [[Murrysville, New Jersey]], but no such place exists per either Google Maps or the US Postal Service--> and later moved to [[Fullerton, California]], during his sophomore year of high school.<ref name="barbara"/> In Fullerton, he attended [[Sunny Hills High School]].<ref>Winters, Laura. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110400411.html "Shane Black, Coming Back With a 'Bang': 'Lethal Weapon' Writer Rearms With Sendup"], ''Washington Post'', November 6, 2005, retrieved June 29, 2007.</ref>
He attended [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], where he majored in film and theater and graduated in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2017-newsletter/|title=2017 newsletter|website=UCLA School of TFT|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> During his senior year, he decided to make a living
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He studied theater at UCLA and graduated in 1983 with the intent to become an actor. While looking for a way to make some income as he struggled to find acting roles, his friend [[Fred Dekker]] encouraged Black to try his hand at screenwriting. Remembering what he learned from a dramatic writing class he took in college, he borrowed a typewriter and went to work on his first script. At age 23, Black wrote his second screenplay, ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'', in six weeks. His agent David Greenblatt sold the screenplay in three days. The film would become a successful franchise. He has two kids.
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