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John Tracy Kidder was an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. Kidder rec
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The Soul of a New Machine
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The Soul of a New Machine is a nonfiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer a
Tracy Kidder
…John Tracy Kidder (November 12, 1945 – March 24, 2026) was an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. Kidder received praise and awards for other works, including Mountains Beyond…
The Soul of a New Machine