Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, in a Special Dialogue on Good Societies
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Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for Soul of a New Machine. His books have explored computers and technology, the lives of schoolchildren and teachers, small town dynamics and his experience in Vietnam in his new memoir, My Detachment. He is perhaps best known for Mountains Beyond Mountains, the true story of Dr. Paul Farmer, the health care crises in Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia, and the creation of the global medical organization Partners in Health. The event was moderated by Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs.
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, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends,Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
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University of Minnesota Medical School and the School of Journalism
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Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2006). Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, in a Special Dialogue on Good Societies. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216206.
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