Mastodawn

Tracy Kidder has died
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- 2 hours ago | 98 points | 32 comments
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519802

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.

The New York Times

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Killa Koala

@hnbot So sad, I loved Soul of a New Machine since first reading it forty years ago. There was a computer industry before the Apple II and IBM PC and it had some great stories too. Soul was one of the best of them.