[3] From his birth late in 1943 through high school, Frank A. Moretti lived in West New York, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
He grew up, an only child of older parents, interacting with an extended family, mastering cameras and the darkroom mentored by a New York sports photographer.
In 1966, he had entered graduate school in classics at Columbia, shifting in the fall of 1968 to a Ph.D. program in the history of education at Teachers College.
Daily, he would read literary and scholarly works in energetic bursts, filling the margins with his forceful argumentation, appreciation, and unexpected asides.
In paintings, photos, memos, phone calls, meetings, talks, lectures, occasional essays, and multimedia study environments he expressed both his self and his learning, and thereby left his mark.