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- Birth nameJohn Tracy Kidder
- Tracy Kidder was born on November 12, 1945 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Risk (2000), Bending the Arc (2017) and Well Read (2015). He was married to Frances Gray Toland. He died on March 24, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseFrances Gray Toland(1971 - March 24, 2026) (his death, 2 children)
- After returning from Vietnam he wrote an unpublished war novel, Ivory Fields,.
- Wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, while at the University of Iowa.
- Attended Harvard College, originally majoring in political science, but switching to English after taking a course in creative writing from Robert Fitzgerald. He received an AB degree from Harvard in 1967.
- Receiving a ROTC commission, he entered the United States Army, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He served as a military intelligence officer in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969, receiving a Bronze Star, but did not see combat.
- Received a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1982, for The Soul of a New Machine.
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