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Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, in a Special Dialogue on Good Societies

Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for Soul of a New Machine. His books have explored computers and technology, the lives of schoolchildren and teachers, small town dynamics and his experience in Vietnam in his new memoir, My Detachment. He is perhaps best known for Mountains Beyond Mountains, the true story of Dr. Paul Farmer, the health care crises in Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia, and the creation of the global medical organization Partners in Health. The event was moderated by Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs.

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Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.

When

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
7:30 p.m.

Where

Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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For more information and disability accommodations, please call (612) 625-5340 or
e-mail cspg@umn.edu.

This event is cosponsored by the University of Minnesota Medical School, the School of Journalism, and the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

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