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Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren,... show more

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
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Birth date: November 12, 1945
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
Tracy Kidder's Books
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction - Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd House - Tracy Kidder Among Schoolchildren - Tracy Kidder My Detachment: A Memoir - Tracy Kidder Old Friends - Tracy Kidder Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder Home Town - Tracy Kidder Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader - Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy, Tracy Kidder Jomon Pottery - Tracy Kidder Jomon Pottery - Tracy Kidder The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders - Tracy Kidder A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success - Tracy Kidder
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A Truck Full of Money - Tracy Kidder
Among Schoolchildren - Tracy Kidder
A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success - Tracy Kidder
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness - Tracy Kidder
Home Town - Tracy Kidder
Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder
My Detachment: A Memoir - Tracy Kidder
Among Schoolchildren - Tracy Kidder
Old Friends - Tracy Kidder
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Merle
Merle rated it 8 years ago
text Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
This is a readable but mediocre book that gets a lot of praise because it’s about an impressive person and a tragic topic. Deogratias grew up in rural Burundi with few advantages, but made it to medical school, until he got caught up in the genocide in Rwanda and Burundi in 1993. A friend helped him...
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danae
danae rated it 8 years ago
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Another good teaching book. I like that it shows that even a great teacher can't reach every student. It's been a while since I read it, so I don't have anything else to say. I did enjoy it, though; I can tell you that.
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Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
text Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
One of the best books on writing out there.
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Remember When the Music
Remember When the Music rated it 10 years ago
text Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
I finally got around to reading the incredible Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder as recommended by my friend Sarah, and I can’t figure out why it took me so long to get to reading this! I guess sometimes I have to be in the mood for non-fiction but I don’t think I ever could have fully prep...
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Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 12 years ago
text Strength in What Remains
Where are we today at the beginning of the 21st Century? Where are we headed? I have been reading books that focus on ethnic cleansing and genocide. It seems to me there is more and more of this with each year that passes. What does this say about the way the world is run today? How do different boo...
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