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Writer Tracy Kidder found riveting emotion in stories about computers and houses

NPR | By Neda Ulaby
Published March 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM CDT

Writer Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1981 book The Soul of a New Machine, which chronicled the race to develop a new computer. Kidder died this week at 80.

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