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Overview
Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780307807502 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 08/24/2011 |
Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 192 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author

Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and numerous works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hermann Hesse Prize, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, Margaret Brentano; both his children went to Maine public schools.
Date of Birth:
1954Place of Birth:
Rochester, NYEducation:
B.A. in English, Haverford College, 1980Customer Reviews
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