Evans was born in Kingsville in Kleberg County in South Texas, the son of Medford Bryan Evans, an author, college professor at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and official of the United States Atomic Energy Commission,[REF] and the classics scholar Josephine Stanton Evans [REF].
Evans graduated in 1955 magna cum laude from Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa,[REF] with a Bachelor of Arts in English, followed by graduate work in Economics at New York University under Ludwig von Mises [REF].