"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
John Tracy Kidder is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his *The Soul of a New Machine*, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. - Wikipedia
