Rushworth Kidder

Rushworth Moulton Kidder (May 8, 1944 – March 5, 2012) was an American author, ethicist, and professor. Kidder founded the Institute for Global Ethics in 1990, and is the author of *Moral Courage* and *How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living*. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. He worked as a columnist and editor for *The Christian Science Monitor*. Kidder died in 2012 of natural causes in Naples, Florida at the age of 67. Kidder earned a doctorate from Columbia University in English and comparative literature and wrote the foreword to *Compassion Wins*, by Godfrey John. He wrote an award-winning five-part series on quantum physics in 1988, and his writings appeared in the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Best Newspaper Writing collection.