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Long before attending college and marrying a future billionaire, MacKenzie Bezos (née Tuttle) was just a normal kid. She “grew up in San Francisco, a middle child with two siblings” (via Forbes), with a “father who was a financial planner and a mother who cheerfully stayed home to cook meals and decorate the house,” according to Vogue. The magazine elaborated that Bezos “was bookish and shy, the kind of girl who would spend hours alone in her bedroom writing elaborate stories.” And these elaborate stories were no small task. According to her Amazon author profile, Bezos “wrote her first book when she was six years old, a 142-page chapter book entitled The Book Worm.” Sadly, “the sole handwritten copy was reduced to a soup of pulp” after a flood in her childhood home. Bezos elaborated about the incident in an interview with Charlie Rose. “I learned my lesson and I was … really good at backing up my work in college and I never lost anything again.”
According to Forbes, Bezos’ parents “sent her to Hotchkiss, the Connecticut boarding school, where she graduated a year early.” After, she first “studied at Cambridge, then Princeton, where she majored in English.” One of her English professors at Princeton, Jeff Nunokawa, remembers that Bezos “was generally a very poised and a quiet and brilliant presence.” Somehow, an English degree led to a job at a hedge fund, where she would meet the man that would completely change her life.
Written by: Nicki
