Pulitzer Prize winning author, Tracy Kidder speaks in Concor

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Hours:	7:00pm
Cost:	Free
Category:	Books & Poetry

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning journalist Tracy Kidder will discuss his book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. Joining Kidder will be Dr. Serena Koenig, a specialist in infectious disease who is featured in the book. The evening is part of a community-wide reading project organized by Concord Carlisle Read. Talk. Share.

Location
Harvey Wheeler Community Center
1276 Main Street West Concord

Date & Time
Wednesday, March 9 at 7:00pm

About Read, Talk Share
The project's goal is to build community through a shared reading experience, discussion, public events and to inspire action. Mountains Beyond Mountains is the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners In Health and his work bringing first-class medical care to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Siberia, and Roxbury. Kidder¹s portrayal of Farmer illustrates how one person can make a difference, and that radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable. Farmer is the recipient of a 1993 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'genius award,' among others.

About the Author, Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder, a contributor to the Atlantic and The New Yorker earned a Pulitzer and a National Book Award in 1982 for Soul of a New Machine. More than a decade later, Kidder met Dr. Paul Farmer while in Haiti reporting on American soldiers working to reinstate Jean-Bertrand Aristide¹s democratically elected government. Kidder met with Farmer again in 1999 to create 'The Good Doctor,' a profile of Farmer published in The New Yorker in July 2000. Kidder¹s research for this profile was the starting point for Mountains Beyond Mountains, published in September 2003 by Random House.

Other best-selling works include House (1985), Among Schoolchildren (1989), Old Friends (1993), and Home Town (1999). Among Schoolchildren, a narrative of one year in the life of a fifth-grade class and its teacher won Kidder the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1989.

About Dr. Serena Koenig
Dr. Serena Koenig focuses on the complexities of delivering HIV/AIDS care in resource-poor settings and divides her clinical time between Brigham and Women¹s Hospital and an infectious disease clinic in Haiti. She was recently granted an International Research Scientist Development Award through the Fogarty Center of the NIH to conduct a study evaluating the health outcomes and cost of a variety of HIV treatment strategies in Port au Prince, in collaboration with researchers at the GHESKIO Center (Le Groupe Haitien d¹Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes) and Cornell University. As the former Medical Director for Partners In Health¹s Haiti Programs, she was a major author of Haiti¹s successful application to the Global Fund for monies to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis services to the 550,000 residents of Haiti¹s central medical department. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Koenig has finished a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital and a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Co sponsored by Concord-Carlisle Community Education. The event is free and open to the public. Info at beeza10@aol.com or by calling 978-930-4629.

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1276 main St, W. Concord, MA, 01742 map
Phone: 978-930-4629