Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker has written eighteen books, including Vox, The Anthologist, Human Smoke, and Baseless—also an art book, The World on Sunday, in collaboration with his wife Margaret Brentano. Several of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Herman Hesse Prize. Baker and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine.