Tracy Kidder, author portrait
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Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and the University of Iowa. He won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He is the author of Rough Sleepers, A Truck Full of Money, Good Prose (with Richard Todd), Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine. Kidder passed away in 2026.
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

In Memoriam: Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Random House Author, Dies at 80

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has passed away at age 80. Tracy Kidder’s books covered subjects as wide-ranging as global public health, computer science, education, construction, and homelessness, but they were all united by his trademark research and dogged reporting that provided the foundations for stories of real people, passionately committed to their work. In

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