Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidderis an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth12 November 1945
CountryUnited States of America
imagined layers saw side
Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.
imposing landscape means order painting
Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.
brilliance charity degree idealism public witnessed
PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,
returning seems town wonder
Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.
writing revision prose
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
spring adventure worry
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.
coward weapons cynicism
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
glasses want clear
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
expression combination wildness
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
england continuity programming-languages
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
vermont units deals
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
mad computer
I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
commitment years two
When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life
writing done copying
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia