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Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy Kidder Examines the Mind of Tech Genius Paul English

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Tracy Kidder's latest book is "A Truck Full of Money." (Photo: Gabriel Amadeus Cooney)

On the surface, Paul English’s story resembles that of many successful tech entrepreneurs: awkward software engineer turned billionaire. But author Tracy Kidder’s “A Truck Full of Money” goes beyond that stereotype and digs into English’s complicated relationship with money and his day-to-day life with bipolar disorder. Nearly 35 years after Kidder’s Pulitzer-Prize winning book, “The Soul of A New Machine,” examined the world of computer hardware, Forum talks to Kidder about Paul English and the new age of tech entrepreneurs.

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Tracy Kidder, author, "Truck Full of Money"

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