Tracy Kidder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1945
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
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About Tracy Kidder
- John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books.
- 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.
- He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003). Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing.
- He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A.
- J.
- Liebling, and George Orwell.
- In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model.
- He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think."Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility.
- It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction.
- I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable."
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