Word: kidderã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...world-renowned Harvard Medical School infectious disease specialist had spent parts of three years with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder ’67 by his side. Now, with Kidder??s book on the verge of release, he wasn’t sure he liked what...
...push for a “preferential option for the poor,” for equity in health care and for the eradication of HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis, he also tells of his own thoughts on Farmer—both personally and professionally. While all but one of Kidder??s previous books have been written in the third person, Mountains Beyond Mountains has lengthy first-person narrative portions, and Kidder is a vocal character throughout...
Farmer, too, has had his share of discomfort in connection with Kidder??s book—some of which showed through at a recent event the two held together at Longfellow Hall, sponsored by Harvard Book Store...
...between Kidder??s readings of excerpts from Mountains Beyond Mountains, Farmer—always smiling—tossed barbs the author’s way, repeatedly mocking Kidder??s educational pedigree of Andover and Harvard. Farmer also wryly announced plans to retaliate by publishing his own multi-volume version of the months he and Kidder spent together, including such installments as Cry, the Beloved Tracy. Playing on the titles of Kidder??s most laurelled works, he joked that he would publish more books about Haiti: Hut for Kidder??s House and Slum...
...wasn’t really aware that I got on Kidder??s nerves sometimes until I read his book,” Farmer says. “I knew that I was running him ragged, and that our travel styles didn’t match at all, but I learned more about what he was thinking when I read his book, which was pretty recently...