Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literary prizes. He is the author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine. His most recent book — now in paperback — is Mountains Beyond Mountains. He currently is at work on a book about Vietnam.
I encountered Tracy Kidder and The Soul of a New Machine when I embarked on my journey with computers and computing. Next, I read House which gave me an understanding of the synergy of home construction. After that, I entered the world of the fifth grade in a Boston suburb: Among Schoolchildren. As I age, I draw upon Kidder's insights into the geriatric process in Old Friends. In Home Town, I learned about Smith College and the tension between town and gown. Today, I acquired Kidder's most recent book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, which details the public health tragedy in that small bit of hell known as Haiti. Like all of the other Kidder books, it is a page-turner and a marvel. Tracy Kidder is a national treasure.
If this is (fair & balanced) bibliophilia, so be it.
Monday, April 04, 2005
The Best Writer Who Is Unknown To Most People I Know
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
☛ STOP!!! Read the following BEFORE posting a Comment!
Include your e-mail address with your comment or your comment will be deleted by default. Your e-mail address will be DELETED before the comment is posted to this blog. Comments to entries in this blog are moderated by the blogger. Violators of this rule can KMA (Kiss My A-Double-Crooked-Letter) as this blogger's late maternal grandmother would say. No e-mail address (to be verified AND then deleted by the blogger) within the comment, no posting. That is the (fair & balanced) rule for comments to this blog.