Paul Lieberstein

Lieberstein grew up in Westport, Connecticut, the son of Judith and Stanley Lieberstein. He is Jewish.\n', '

He attended Staples High School where he wrote his first sitcom with some friends and played the vibraphone in band. He would follow that by attending Hamilton College where he joined Chi Psi and graduated in 1989 with a major in economics (he "wanted to be a financier of some kind"). Lieberstein wrote references to the fact that Office character Andy Bernard was a Chi Psi from Cornell into the storyline of several episodes of the show.\n', '

Lieberstein moved to New York City after graduation where his first job was as an auditor at Peat Marwick International, a job that only lasted six months. He followed that with part-time work in his father\'s law firm, "working as little as [he] could so [he] could write."\n', '