TRACY KIDDER
Thursday, March 1 // Wheeler Opera House // 5:30pm
Photo: Gabriel Amadeus Cooney
Tracy Kidder is a prize-winning author of narrative nonfiction. His book, The Soul of a New Machine, which chronicles a race to design the next generation computer, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the National Book Award. His biographical book of Dr. Paul Farmer’s work in Haiti, Mountains Beyond Mountains, was a New York Times Notable Book and is required reading for colleges and high schools nationwide. Other books by Kidder include My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and mostly recently, Strength in What Remains. He is a contributing editor to The Atlantic and has published numerous nonfiction articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Granta. Kidder resides in Maine and Western Massachusetts.
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