Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80

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4. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/tracy-kidder-pulitzer-winning-author-who-turned-22099214.php

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Kidder hated the title “literary journalist,” telling the Dallas Morning News in 2010 that he found the description “pretentious.”

The term creative nonfiction irked him too: “It suggests we make things up.”

Instead, he saw himself as a storyteller.

“I don’t think of fiction and nonfiction as all that different, except that nonfiction is not invented," he told the AP. "But I take exception to those people who think nonfiction should not appropriate the techniques of fiction ... They belong to storytelling.”