Education
Harvard University; Tisch School of the Arts.
Harvard University; Tisch School of the Arts.
Born in New York City, he attended the City & Country School, The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, and graduated from Harvard College in 1961. In 2002, he earned a Master of Professional Studies degree from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, in its Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has two daughters by Ellen Elizabeth Harfield Piel (deceased, 1996): Sarah Piel (b 1970) and Katie Piel (b 1977).