Editing Grace Slick (section)

=== Early life ===

Grace Slick was born in Highland Park, Illinois, the daughter of investment banker Ivan Wing and retired performer Virginia Wing. During her childhood, her father's job moved the family around the country; they lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco before settling in Palo Alto, California. Slick graduated from Castilleja School, an all-girls high school in Palo Alto, before attending Finch College in New York City from 1957 to 1958 and the University of Miami in Florida from 1958 to 1959, where she studied art. 

She married Jerry Slick, the son of her mother's best friend, in 1961.  After a short stint in San Diego, the couple moved back to San Francisco, where she found work as a model for an I. Magnin department store while Jerry studied at San Francisco State University.