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Joseph Thomas `` Tom '' West III -LRB- 22 November 1939 -- 19 May 2011 -RRB- was the protagonist of the Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine .. Pulitzer Prize. Pulitzer Prize. non-fiction. non-fiction. The Soul of a New Machine. The Soul of a New Machine. West worked for Data General Corporation as a hardware engineer and vice president , retiring as Chief Technologist in 1998 .. Data General Corporation. Data General. West died at the age of 71 in his Westport , Massachusetts home of an apparent heart attack .. He is survived by two daughters , one of whom is librarian Jessamyn West .. Jessamyn West. Jessamyn West ( librarian ). His nephew , Christopher Schwarz , is a former editor of Popular Woodworking magazine , author of The Anarchist Toolchest , and co-founder of Lost Art Press .. Lost Art Press. Lost Art Press