Background
Kidder, John Tracy was born on November 12, 1945 in New York City. Son of Henry Maynard and Reine Marie (Tracy) Kidder.
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This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder’s magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”–as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. “Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with a force of gathering revelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr notes, “Paul Farmer wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.”
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( Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Th...)
Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
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(The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written b...)
The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Kidder, John Tracy was born on November 12, 1945 in New York City. Son of Henry Maynard and Reine Marie (Tracy) Kidder.
AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967; Master of Fine Arts, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1974.
Contributing editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, since 1982.
( Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Th...)
(This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paper...)
(The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written b...)
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Served to First lieutenant United States Army, 1967-1969, Vietnam. M C.
Married Frances Toland, January 1971.