![]() He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967. ![]() He attended Harvard College, originally majoring in political science, but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963. John Tracy Kidder was born November 12, 1945, in New York City. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable." Early life and education It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think." : 7 : 127–128 In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. : 5 He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003). He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. ![]() John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. ![]() ![]() Tracy Kidder at the College of Wooster, 2009 ![]()
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