# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tracy-kidder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:52:32.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tracy-kidder"
name: "Tracy Kidder"
slug: "tracy-kidder"
description: "John Tracy Kidder 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 Mountains (2003), a biography of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health."
tagline: "American writer (1945–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tracy_Kidder_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-11-12"
deathDate: "2026-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.617969333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/officialtracykidder"
    handle:    "officialtracykidder"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tracykidder.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تريسي كيدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "تريسى كيدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder"
    title: "Tracy Kidder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Киддер, Трэйси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump