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November 12, 1945 -
American nonfiction writer
Author of "The Soul of a New Machine" (for which she won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and a National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1982), "Among Schoolchildren" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains"
Born John Tracy Kidder