Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder

• Birth:    November 12, 1945
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American, New York
  
• Education:       Harvard University, University of Iowa (MFA)
  
• Author URL:  https://www.tracykidder.com/
• Books Written
• Kidder, Tracy (1974). The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders. Garden City: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-02865-3.
• Kidder, Tracy (1981). The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-49170-9.
• Kidder, Tracy (1985). House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-00191-3.
• Kidder, Tracy (1990) [1989]. Among Schoolchildren. New York: New York : Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-71089-7.
• Kidder, Tracy (1993). Old Friends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-71088-3.
• Kidder, Tracy (2000) [1999]. Home Town. New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN
• 0-671-78521-4.
• Kidder, Tracy (2003). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50616-0.
• Kidder, Tracy (2005). My Detachment: A Memoir. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50615-2.
• Kidder, Tracy (2009). Strength in What Remains. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6621-6.
• Kidder, Tracy; Todd, Richard (2013). Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6975-0.
• Kidder, Tracy (2016). A Truck Full Of Money: One Man's Quest To Recover From Great Success. Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-9524-4.
• Biography

an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003).

Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing:  He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell: 127–128  In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think.": 

Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable."   From Wikipedia

Mountains Beyond Mountains is mentioned in Dr Paul Farmer's APNews obtituary.