1. John Tracy Kidder was born on November 12,1945 and is an American writer of nonfiction books.
15 Facts About Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation.
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Tracy Kidder has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains.
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John Tracy Kidder was born November 12,1945, in New York City.
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Tracy Kidder attended Harvard College, originally majoring in political science, but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald.
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Tracy Kidder received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967.
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Tracy Kidder served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant, Military Intelligence, Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969.
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Tracy Kidder received an MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1974.
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Tracy Kidder wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba City: a Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, while at the University of Iowa.
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The Road to Yuba City was a critical failure, and Tracy Kidder said in a 1995 interview that.
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Tracy Kidder has continued to write nonfiction books and articles, and these have been well received by the critics.
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Tracy Kidder's 2009 book, Strength in What Remains, is a portrait of a man who survived the genocide in Burundi.
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Tracy Kidder's books have made "Notable" annual lists of The New York Times and received positive praise from critics, in addition to awards.
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In fall 2010 Tracy Kidder was selected as the first AM Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
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Tracy Kidder lectured to students and did research to identify his next narrative subject.