Editing Jack Spicer (section)

==Early life==
Jack was born '''John Lester Spicer''' on January 30, 1925 in Los Angeles, the elder child of parents Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/spicer1364/|title=Jack Spicer papers, 1938–1973|date=2016-06-07|website=Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University|language=en|access-date=2017-08-10}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZaYmNUy5BkC|title=The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised|last1=Allen|first1=Donald|last2=Butterick|first2=George F.|publisher=Grove Press|year=1982|isbn=0802150357|pages=427|access-date=2017-08-09}}</ref>

He graduated from [[Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)|Fairfax High School]] in 1942, and attended the [[University of Redlands]] from 1943 to 1945.<ref name=":0" /> While attending the University of Redlands, he befriended [[Warren Christopher]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=2008-12-23|title=Sometimes Love Lives Alongside Loneliness|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/books/24garn.html|access-date=2021-05-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After graduation he lived in Los Angeles briefly, and worked as a [[Extra (acting)|movie extra]] and a [[private investigator]].<ref name=":1" />