Tracy Kidder

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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.

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 is based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.

[edit] Bibliography

• 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)

[edit] External links

• 1985 audio interview of Tracy Kidder by Don Swaim
• Biographical notes from the Lettre Ulysses Award 2004