Tracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80. His son, Nat ...

In any setting, and there were many during 50 years of book-length journalism, Tracy Kidder illuminated the human condition with deft phrases and elegant details. At a nursing home near where he lived ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people. By John Schwartz Tracy Kidder, a wide-ranging journalist and author whose ...

Tracy Kidder, who died last week at the age of 80, was a longtime contributor to The Atlantic and a writer of articles and books that served for many readers as timeless exemplars of what nonfiction ...

L.L.Bean might operate more than 100 stores worldwide today, but back in the mid-’90s, already 75 years into business, there were only two retail locations. The first, of course, was its iconic ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Kidder brought that same sensibility to his Atlantic stories about ...

Thick-cut bacon and pieces of melt-in-your-mouth pork will take your love of pork and beans to a whole new level. And the sauce? You'll be licking the plate. Use canned beans for convenience, or soak ...

There are few candies odder than jelly beans, but when it comes to finding the best jelly beans for Easter, fans have plenty of strong opinions. Making candy in the shape of beans is already a mystery ...

Dark times call for dark comedies. These 34 films look at life's bleaker moments and shine a light on the funny parts.