Tracy Kidder: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American author of multiple books. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Soul of New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Eclipse/MV minicomputers.

One side effect of that book was to popularize throughout the computer world the term canard, which had been in-house slang at Data General, with the meaning "mistaken and confused belief".

Bibliography

• Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren, Avon Books, 1990, ISBN 0380710897
• Tracy Kidder, Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay Books, 2000, ISBN 0316491977
• Tracy Kidder, House, Hougton Mifflin Co., 1999, ISBN 0618001913
• Tracy Kidder, Home Town, Random House, 1999, ISBN 0671785214
• Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, Random House, 2003, ISBN 0375506160