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Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People” shines a spotlight on Jim O’Connell, a Harvard-trained doctor who has spent 40 years caring for unhoused individuals in Boston, the “Rough Sleepers.” We talk with both Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O’Connell on this week’s Book Show.

Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People,” tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell – a man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city’s unhoused population – the “rough sleepers.”

In 2003, Pulitzer Prize-winning Western Massachusetts author Tracy Kidder wrote “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” a biography of the globetrotting Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer. After Farmer’s death in Rwanda at 62 last month, Kidder shared his memories of the celebrated humanitarian with WAMC.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tracy Kidder's new book, A Truck Full of Money, chronicles the life of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional…

Over his extensive career, Tracy Kidder has written some enormously popular books including his Pulitzer Prize and National Book of the Year award winning…