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Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 PM Hoyt Sherman Place {1501 Woodland Avenue}
tracykidder.com
Tracy Kidder will kick off this year’s AViD Author Series with a discussion of his best-selling story, Strength in What Remains, selected by the Iowa Center for the Book, as this year’s All Iowa Reads title. It’s the story of Deogratias, a young man who flees from civil war in Burundi, then Rwanda, becomes homeless in New York City, graduates from Columbia University, and builds a heath care clinic in Burundi that is free for those who cannot pay.
Kidder earned a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He is the author of Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine. Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
For more information about Deogratias, the doctor profiled in Kidder's book, Strength In What Remains visit: Village Health Works
Moderated by: Dr. Richard Deming
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