If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
"John Tracy Kidder" is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General/Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003).
Kidder is considered a Literary journalism/literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing.
He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell. In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think."
Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable."
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People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.
The world doesn't make much sense to me generally. I don't feel like I'm good at that.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
I like particular people, particular places.
Memory is so much a part of imagination, so plastic, so wonderfully plastic.
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.
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