Tracy Kidder, author portrait
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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 Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
Rough Sleepers
A Truck Full of Money
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)
Good Prose
Home Town
Strength in What Remains
Mountains Beyond Mountains
My Detachment

Books

Rough Sleepers
A Truck Full of Money
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)
Good Prose
Home Town
Strength in What Remains
Mountains Beyond Mountains
My Detachment

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