Editing Tracy Kidder (section)

==Early life and education==
John Tracy Kidder was born November 12, 1945, in New York City.<ref name=CA>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series |volume=61 |year=1998 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=0-7876-2004-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787620042/page/263 263–267] |chapter=Kidder, Trina 1945– |editor1=Daniel Jones   |editor2=John D. Jorgenson |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787620042/page/263 }}</ref>{{Rp|263}}
He graduated from [[Phillips Academy]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite web | title=Phillips Academy – Notable Alumni – Literature, Publishing & Journalism | url=http://wwwdev.andover.edu/About/Notable%20Alumni/Pages/LiteraturePublishingJournalism.aspx | publisher=Phillips Academy | year=2009 | access-date=June 10, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20090620014733/http://wwwdev.andover.edu/About/Notable%20Alumni/Pages/LiteraturePublishingJournalism.aspx | archive-date=June 20, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
He attended [[Harvard College]], originally majoring in [[political science]], but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from [[Robert Fitzgerald]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kidder |first=Tracy |date=Fall 1996 |title=Courting the approval of the dead |journal= TriQuarterly |issue=97 |pages=43–59 |issn= 0041-3097}}</ref> He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967.<ref name=CA />{{Rp|263}}

Kidder served in the [[United States Army]] as a [[first lieutenant]], [[Military intelligence|Military Intelligence]], Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969.<ref name=CA />{{Rp|263}} After returning from Vietnam, he wrote for some time and was admitted to the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]].<ref name=DLB>{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=David |title=Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=185 |year=1997 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=0-7876-1119-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanliterary00arth/page/127 127–137] |chapter=Tracy Kidder |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americanliterary00arth/page/127 }}</ref>{{Rp|128}} He received an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] degree from the [[University of Iowa]] in 1974.<ref name=CA />{{Rp|263}}