About Michael Shapiro

 Michael Shapiro was born on November 29, 1939, in Yokohama, Japan, and grew up speaking Russian, Japanese, and English. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in September, 1952. He attended schools in Tokyo (American School in Japan (1946-52; Japanese Language School, International Students’ Institute, Tokyo, Middle Level Certificate, 1966; Tokyo University, Postdoctoral Student, 1965-1966), Los Angeles (Joseph N. LeConte Jr. Junior High School, Diploma, 1954; Hollywood High School, Diploma, 1957; University of California, Los Angeles, A. B. in Slavic Languages, 1961 [graduated with Honors, elected to Phi Beta Kappa], and Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard University, A. M. in Slavic Languages & Literatures, 1962; Ph. D., 1965; dissertation: “The Stress of Derived Substantives in Contemporary Standard Russian;” director: Roman Jakobson).

Michael Shapiro and Marianne Goldner (1940-2003) were married in New York on June 25, 1967; their daughter Abigail was born in Los Angeles on October 14, 1968.