Tracy Kidder
Born: November 12, 1945
Place of Birth:New York, New York
Married: unknown lives with wife and
family
• Louis “Studs” Terkel
•Born: May 16, 1912•Died: October 31, 2008
•Place of Birth: New York City, New York
• Married: 1939 •Wife: Ida Goldberg (1912-1999) They had one son “Paul”
Louis “Studs” Terkel
J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934
2004, honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Colby College
Tracy Kidder
Harvard - Bachelor of Arts in 1967
From 1967 until 1969, he served as first lieutenant in Vietnam, and was awarded a Bronze Star.
Masters from the University of Iowa
Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts, Springfield College, and Clarkson University.
Louis “Studs” Terkel Program Joined/ElectedWorks Progress
Administration’s Federal Writers Project
The American Academy o f Arts and Letters
Awards1997-Pulitzer Prize for
The Good War1999-George Polk Career
Award2004- Elijah Parish
Lovejoy
Tracy KidderProgram Joined/ElectedWriters Workshop Awards1981-Pulitzer Prize
for The Soul of a New Machine
1982-American Book Award
1990-Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
1990- the Ambassador Book Award
1998-the Sarah Josepha Hale Award
Giants of Jazz (1957). Division Street: America (1967) Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974). Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (1977) American Dreams: Lost and Found (1983) The Good War (1984) Chicago (1986) The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988) Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992). Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who’ve Lived It (1995) My American Century (1997) The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Make Them (1999) Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith (2001) Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times (2003) And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey (2005) Touch and Go (2007) P.S. Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening (2008)
The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, Doubleday, 1974
The Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay Books, 1981 House, Hougton Mifflin Co., 1985 Among Schoolchildren, Avon Books, 1989 Old Friends, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994 Home Town, Random House, 1999 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr.
Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House
My Detachment: a Memoir, Random House, 2005
(a Vietnam War memoir)
Author: Tracy Kidder
He likes to capture the reflections of the natural person in his stories.
Example: “Alex is their cutter nonpareil. He likes nothing better than to get from Richard an order for thirty two-by-tens, all fifteen feet, five q and three-eights inches long.”
Louis “Studs” Terkel
Enjoyed interviewing the subjects of his books. This would give him more voice and true description of the characters.
Example: “She’s twenty-three. She’s an engineer working
for a nonprofit group: Center for Neighborhood Technology.”
The differences between the two areStuds:
PersonalRealRationalize with
Kidder:ConstructionConsumersPhysical Labor
Both have a great deal alike in their bio’s.Except the main degrees and their main
interestBoth were in the military and VeteransBoth acquired many rewards
Differences'One has died and one is aliveStuds did more than write books
Chicago Historical Society , (2002). Studs terkel:conversation with america. Retrieved November 14, 2008, from Studs Terkel Web site:
http://www.studsterkel.org/index.html
Klempner, M (2008, March 16). A Conversation with trady kidder about mountains
beyond mountains. Retrieved November 15, 2008, from The Huffington Post Web site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-klempner/a-conversation-with-tracy_b_91799.html