Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80
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Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist and author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' has died at age 80. Known for his deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people, Kidder wrote about diverse subjects including home construction, disease prevention, and technology. His 1981 book about computer engineers won the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic in technology journalism.
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Tracy Kidder, a wide-ranging journalist and author whose deep reporting and novelistic prose illuminated worlds as diverse as home construction, disease prevention and — as portrayed in his prizewinning 1981 book...
He moved to rural Western Massachusetts after completing a creative writing master's program at the University of Iowa.
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