RIP Tracy Kidder

[DanOregon]

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning Williamsburg author, dies at 80 - Daily Hampshire Gazette

I read Home Town and House, both brilliant. And books that influenced me as a reporter - teaching me to not just be examining what a person "did" - but who they were and what made them that way. Highly recommend both. In most of his books, the "what" is secondary. A hell of a storyteller.

 

[Liut]

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning Williamsburg author, dies at 80 - Daily Hampshire Gazette

I read Home Town and House, both brilliant. And books that influenced me as a reporter - teaching me to not just be examining what a person "did" - but who they were and what made them that way. Highly recommend both. In most of his books, the "what" is secondary. A hell of a storyteller.

Thank you for sharing. Probably would not have learned this news, otherwise.
RIP

 

[OscarMadison]

Among Schoolchildren was eye-opening to newly graduated me. All of his books had the feel of deeply engaged field research.

 

[garrow]

Soul of a New Machine is a classic. RIP.