Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945 in New York City) is an American author of multiple books. Kidder may be best known, especially within the Computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine , an account of the development of Data General s Eclipse/MV minicomputers.

One side effect of that book was to popularize throughout the computer world the term canard , which had been in-house slang at Data General, with the meaning mistaken and confused belief .

= Bibliography =

Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren , Avon Books, 1990, ISBN 0380710897

Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine , Back Bay Books, 2000, ISBN 0316491977

Tracy Kidder, House , Hougton Mifflin Co., 1999, ISBN 0618001913

Tracy Kidder, Home Town , Random House, 1999, ISBN 0671785214

Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer , Random House, 2003, ISBN 0375506160

Tracy Kidder, My Detachment: a Memoir , Random House, 2005, ISBN 0375506152

= External Links =

*[http://wiredforbooks.org/tracykidder/ 1985 audio interview of Tracy Kidder by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio]