Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker has written seventeen books, including The Mezzanine , Vox , Human Smoke , The Anthologist , 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 Hermann Hesse Prize. Baker has two grown children; he and his wife live on the Penobscot...See more

Nicholson Baker has written seventeen books, including The Mezzanine , Vox , Human Smoke , The Anthologist , 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 Hermann Hesse Prize. Baker has two grown children; he and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine. See less