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Tracy Kidder
American writer
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dead
- born
- 1945
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 80
- known for
- writer, journalist
1945 – 2026

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who tracy kidder is
John Tracy Kidder was an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. Kidder received praise and awards for other works, including Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003), a biography of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health.
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