![]() He discovered the joy of hacking computers at Boston Latin High School (an exam school), created a successful minor computer product while barely out of high school, and attended college at the University of Massachusetts Boston 1 while supporting himself through more or less full-time work. Paul English (currently in his early 50s) comes from a working class background in one of Boston’s neighborhoods. Kidder’s featured character is Paul English, who is most known for cofounding the Kayak travel website, which was sold in 2012 to Priceline for $1.8 billion, with English personally receiving more than $100 million. In this, his 11th book, Kidder returns to the world of computing with A Truck Full of Money. Kidder’s career consists mostly of books in the genre of “narrative nonfiction” or “literary journalism” that delve into a topic area by featuring the activities of a person or small group of people at a particular time and place. Many historians of computing will know Tracy Kidder’s name from his second book, The Soul of a New Machine (Little Brown, 1981), which featured engineer Tom West managing a small group working on a tight deadline within a substantially antithetical Data General corporate culture. ![]()
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