Nicholson Baker, author portrait

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 Herman Hesse Prize. Baker has two grown children; he and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine.
Finding a Likeness
Baseless
Substitute
The Paul Chowder Chronicles
Traveling Sprinkler
Checkpoint
Vintage Baker
A Box of Matches
Double Fold
The Everlasting Story of Nory
The Size of Thoughts
The Fermata
Vox
U and I

Books

Finding a Likeness
Baseless
Substitute
The Paul Chowder Chronicles
Traveling Sprinkler
Checkpoint
Vintage Baker
A Box of Matches
Double Fold
The Everlasting Story of Nory
The Size of Thoughts
The Fermata
Vox
U and I

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