Twenty years ago Paul Farmer set out to heal the world. In his new book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of this gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can do to cure it.

Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Paul Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Mountains Beyond Mountains shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, s Farmer – brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti – blasts through conventions to get results.

Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literary prizes. The author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.