Donald Walton and Edwina Lynch welcomed David Keith Lynch into the world on January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana.
After graduating from Francis C. Hammond High School, Lynch enrolled at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., where he started his studies. Lynch had always been interested in drawing and painting.
Lynch moved to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1964, but he departed after a year because he didn’t find it motivating.
He spent two weeks traveling through Europe before returning to Virginia to apply to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
After becoming friends with Peggy Reavey, a fellow student, and having a child together, Lynch purchased a modest 12-room house in a high-crime neighborhood, where he would later produce his first short film, Six Men Get Sick, in 1967.
John Lynch: Meet David Lynch Brother
The name of his brother is John Lynch. However, there is not much information available on him.