Tracy Kidder
Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine, an account of computer engineers building a new minicomputer that raised narrative non-fiction about technology to a literary art. He has since written with equal depth about hospitals, schools, and global health.
Works
- The Soul of a New MachineInside account of Data General engineers building a cutting-edge computer in the 1980s
- HouseNarrative non-fiction tracing the construction and renovation of a New England home
- Among SchoolchildrenYear-long immersion with a dedicated inner-city schoolteacher and her classroom dynamics
- Mountains Beyond MountainsBiography of physician Paul Farmer's quest to combat tuberculosis among poor Haitian communities
- Old FriendsEssay collection reflecting on long friendships and aging in the later stages of life