John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. His book, Strength in What Remains, the story of a Burundian genocide survivor, was released August 25, 2009.
Kidder was born November 12, 1945 in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963. He attended Harvard University...
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John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. His book, Strength in What Remains, the story of a Burundian genocide survivor, was released August 25, 2009.
Kidder was born November 12, 1945 in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963. He attended Harvard University, originally majoring in political science, but switched to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald. He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967.
He served in the US Army as a first lieutenant, Military Intelligence, Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969. After returning from Vietnam he wrote for some time and then enrolled in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He received an MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1974.
Kidder wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba City, while at the University of Iowa. The Atlantic Monthly...
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