Biography
Wimsatt was born in Chicago, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Kenwood Academy, and Oberlin College. His father, William C. Wimsatt, is a philosophy of science professor at the University of Chicago. Wimsatt uses "Upski" as his middle name, but it is really the graffiti tag he used growing up in Chicago. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Wimsatt (Junior) was one of the most prolific graffiti writers in Chicago, and defaced utility poles, mailboxes, and other public property in the vicinity of the University of Chicago, using this alias.
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