Nicholson Baker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nicholson Baker

Novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1957

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.
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, engineering, 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 Wikipedia.
A pacifist, he has also written about the buildup to World War II.