Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing�about the creation of good prose�and the record of a warm and
productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where
a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged
him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder�s The Soul of a New Machine, the first
book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it
was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction.