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Contemporary American novelist and writer
United States · b. 1957
Born in New York, Nicholson Baker, 63, published The Mezzanine, a novel detailing a lunch hour, in 1988. He has written 11 novels and won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper. Baseless: My Search For Secrets In The Ruins Of The Freedom Of Information Act has just been published. He is married with two children and lives in Maine.
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When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 source ↗
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