Charles Robinson Frazier was born on 4 November 1950 in Asheville, North Carolina. The oldest of three children, Frazier grew up in nearby small towns, including Franklin and Andrews. In Franklin his father, Charles O. Frazier, was the high-school principal, while his mother, Betty, was employed as a school librarian and administrator. Frazier has described himself as a moderately good student, but his interest in literature seems not to have been an early passion; in his 6 August 1997 entry for Salon Magazine he admits to having been during his high-school years "a great reader of junk." Frazier graduated from Franklin High School in 1969; of his aspirations at that time, he was later quoted in Michelle Green's 23 February 1998 interview as saying "I thought I wanted to teach literature, probably, if I thought about it much at all." Bolstering Frazier's interest, a high-school friend encouraged him to venture further into the discipline, recommending Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and works by Edgar Allan Poe. Frazier took the advice to heart.
Following this direction, Frazier pursued his undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received his B.A.
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