Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes, and is the author of eight books.

Tracy Kidder book reviews

  • Mountains Beyond Mountains 5 out of 5

    Profoundly moving.

    by WillRutland, Mar 18, 2010

    Tracy Kidder lends a credible voice to a story so inspiring that the term seems inadequate - the story of Paul Farmer and Partners in Health. If nothing else, this work confirms that a person can ... read more

  • My Detachment: A Memoir 5 out of 5

    Warring Emotions

    by DWDW, Aug 6, 2009

    Wise, trenchant, and revelatory without mawkish self-indulgence. Kidder belongs in the upper pantheon of memoir writers. read more

  • House 4 out of 5

    Interesting and Informative

    by Eudemonia, Apr 17, 2008

    I have to state up front that I am a fiction reader for the very reason that many advocate non-fiction. I think that you can learn a lot more from fiction, at least learn a lot more about the ... read more

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