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Born in Hollywood, California, Young was raised in Los Angeles and San Diego and won fellowships to study writing at the University of San Diego ; the University of California, Davis, where he studied with Beat Generation author Gary Snyder ; and the University of Houston, in the doctoral Creative Writing Program founded by postmodern satirist Donald Barthelme.

The Creative Writing Program at UC Davis awards a Master's degree that is equivalent to an M. F. A.

Young's first teaching job, when he was 25, was as a civilian working on U. S. Navy ships deployed throughout the Far East.

This experience would form the basis for his first novel, One of the Guys, published by HarperCollins in 1999.