Pulitzer winner Tracy Kidder and his longtime editor Richard Todd have been friends for 40 years, and they have loved talking about one topic: nonfiction. In Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, they record that obsession. Here are six of their favorite narratives, essays, and memoirs.
Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He is the author of Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, The Soul of a New Machine, and with Richard Todd, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction.
‘Good Prose’
One of the most important doctors of our time has traveled the world changing public-health practices. Tracy Kidder celebrates Paul Farmer's new book, Partner to the Poor.