Nicholson Baker date of birth:
January 7, 1957
How old is Nicholson Baker?
69
Where was Nicholson Baker born?
New York City, New York, United States
Nicholson Baker body shape:
Average
What color are Nicholson Baker's eyes?
Brown - Dark
What color is Nicholson Baker's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Nicholson Baker gay or straight?
Straight
What is Nicholson Baker's ethnicity?
White
What is Nicholson Baker nationality?
American
Where did Nicholson Baker go to university?
Haverford College , Eastman School of Music
What is Nicholson Baker's occupation?
Novelist
What genre is Nicholson Baker's work?
Novels; Essays, Novels, Non-Fiction, Essays
Short Biography
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. He often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Baker has written about poetry, literature, library systems, history, politics, time manipulation, youth, and sex. He has written about libraries getting rid of books and newspapers and created the American Newspaper Repository. He received a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 for his nonfiction book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper and the International Hermann Hesse Prize (Germany) in 2014. Baker has also written about and edited at . A pacifist, he has also written about the buildup to World War II.