Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker is a contemporary American author born in Manhattan in 1957, raised in Rochester, New York.
Known for both fiction and nonfiction, he has published sixteen books, including The Mezzanine, Human Smoke, and Substitute.
His work has appeared in major publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
Baker has received numerous awards, including a National Book Critics Circle award and the Herman Hesse Prize.
In 1999, he co-founded the American Newspaper Repository to preserve historic U.S. newspapers, later donating the collection to Duke University.
He lives in Maine with his family.
