Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder is bringing “Rough Sleepers” to the L.A. Times Book Club on Jan. 26
A master of narrative nonfiction, Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for his deep dives inside medicine, education, technology and other worlds. His previous books include “Strength in What Remains,” “Home Town,” “Old Friends,” “Among Schoolchildren,” “House” and “The Soul of a New Machine.”, Kidder shared some of his favorite reads and other diversions:It might have been [Ernest] Shackleton’s “South” or U.S. Grant’s memoir .
But that only seemed crazy later, when I imagined that I was going to die of thirst — a crazy thought, given that I was with Paul Farmer, who would never have allowed such a thing. I’m not sure this qualifies as crazy, but many years ago, in the late 1970s, I wandered into an industrial basement where a new “minicomputer” was being designed and built. Maybe it was crazy, because for the longest time I couldn’t have explained to anyone what a computer was.I don’t know.
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