The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

I don't want The Road to Yuba City to see the light of day again. The whole experience was disgusting, so disgusting, in fact, that in 1981 I went to Doubleday and bought back the rights to the book. I can't say anything intelligent about that book, except that I learned never to write about a murder case. : 128 The Road to Yuba City was a critical failure, : 128, 137 and Kidder said in a 1995 interview that The Atlantic Monthly commissioned the work, and he continued writing as a freelancer for the magazine during the 1970s. Kidder wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba City: a Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, while at the University of Iowa. : 128 He received an MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1974. : 263 After returning from Vietnam, he wrote for some time and was admitted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Kidder served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant, Military Intelligence, Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969. He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967. He attended Harvard College, originally majoring in political science, but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963. John Tracy Kidder was born November 12, 1945, in New York City.

I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable.' Early life and education It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, 'In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think.' : 7 : 127–128 In a 1984 interview he said, 'McPhee has been my model. : 5 He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003). 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. John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. Tracy Kidder at the College of Wooster, 2009

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder