Tracy Kidder

author, 'Mountains beyond Mountains'

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Author of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, and Strength in What Remains; Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner for The Soul of a New Machine

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