Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder

• Birth:    November 12, 1945
  
• Death:    March 24, 2026 (aged 80) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
• 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.
• Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-9848-0143-2 
• 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.

Kidder's obituary on Legacy

 America magazine also had an obituary about Kidder.