Tracy Kidder

The Soul of a New Machine

Inside account of Data General engineers building a cutting-edge computer in the 1980s

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Tracy Kidder
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.

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