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Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945, in New York City) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Eclipse/MV minicomputer. The book typifies his distinctive style of research. He began following the project at its inception and, in addition to interviews, spent considerable time observing the engineers at work and outside of it. Using this perspective he was able to produce a more textured portrait of the development process than a purely retrospective study might. Kidder followed up with House, in which he chronicles the design and construction of the award-winning Souweine House in Amherst, Massachusetts. House reads like a novel, but it's based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.
In 2003, Kidder also published Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World after a chance encounter with Paul Farmer. The book was held to wide critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The actor Edward Norton has claimed it was one of the books which has had a profound influence on him. The University of Florida and Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota are using Mountains as their common reading book. In Summer 2007, Carleton College and Illinois Wesleyan University also used Mountains for the summer reading program; all incoming freshmen students read the book, and Kidder attended the President's Convocation at Illinois Wesleyan on September 26 2007. In the 2006-2007 school year, Mountains was used as the common book experience at Pellissippi State Technical Community College in Knoxville, TN, which resulted in the school's first annual Presidential Convocation. The Taft School, a private boarding prep school in Connecticut, chose Mountains as the school-wide summer reading for the 2006-2007 year; Kidder spoke at the school on October 2 2007. Mountains was also chosen as the common reading book for all incoming freshmen in the 2005-2006 year at Case Western Reserve University. All incoming freshman for the 2007/2008 year at Loyola University Chicago were given Mountains Beyond Mountains as a university-wide reading project. Incoming freshmen at Dana College in Blair, NE will read this book as part of their Liberal Arts Reading Program (LARP) (External Link

Bibliography

Tracy Kidder, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, Doubleday, 1974, ISBN 0-385-02865-3
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay Books, 1981, ISBN 0-316-49197-7
Tracy Kidder, House, Hougton Mifflin Co., 1985, ISBN 0-618-00191-3
Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren, Avon Books, 1989, ISBN 0-380-71089-7
Tracy Kidder, Old Friends, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994, ISBN 5-554-72949-5
Tracy Kidder, Home Town, Random House, 1999, ISBN 0-671-78521-4
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House, 2003 hardcover: ISBN 0-375-50616-0, 2004 paperback: ISBN 0-8129-7301-1
Tracy Kidder, My Detachment: a Memoir, Random House, 2005, ISBN 0-375-50615-2 (a Vietnam War memoir)

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