Tracy Kidder was the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center. He works as a freelance writer and has published articles and essays in various periodicals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has taught writing at Smith College and Northwestern University. He has published some short fiction and edited a volume of The Best American Essays, but he has spent the best part of the past 40 years writing the following books of narrative nonfiction: The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment and Strength in What Remains. He has won The Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, The National Book Award, The Robert F. Kennedy Award, The Ambassador Book Award, The L.L. Winship Book Award and many other literary prizes. Three of his books have been finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award. He and Richard Todd, his editor of 40 years, are currently working on a book about writing, tentatively entitled Good Prose. He will be working on that project this fall and will also be looking for another narrative subject.
While at the Shorenstein Center, he worked on a book about writing titled Good Prose alongside Richard Todd, his editor of 40 years.
