(New York, 1945) American nonfiction writer and contributing editor to The Atlantic, Kidder trained at the Phillips Academy and Harvard University. After graduating in 1967, he had to enlist for the Vietnam War in the intelligence service, although, unlike other writers, the experience did not affect his subsequent work: "Of course it is intended to influence your work, it is inevitable , but I think it did not influence me too much as a writer ». Kidder considers himself a literary journalist due to the strength and strength of his stories and the personal nature of his writing. Since 1981, he has shown that true description is accomplished by addressing a variety of topics — from elementary school classrooms to basements full of computers and hackers, to rural nursing home rooms — and dedicating months or years to intensive study of local issues and the characters in his books. He has cited John McPhee, A. J. Liebling and George Orwell as literary influences. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his book Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer by the Data General Corporation and the complex community and programming environment and equipment that developed it, and has received accolades and awards. for other works, such as Mountains behind the Mountains (2003), the biography of the doctor and anthropologist Paul Farmer.