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DURHAM, N.H. -- Internationally-acclaimedauthor Nicholson Baker will read from his work and hold a question and answer session Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at 5 p.m. at the 91制片厂's Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, as part of the 91制片厂 English Department's Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Baker is the author of 10 novels and four works of nonfiction, including The Mezzanine,听Vox,听Double Fold,听Human Smoke,听and听The Anthologist.听He has received a听National听Book Critics Circle award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in听The New Yorker,听Harper's, and听The New York Review of Books.听A new novel,听Traveling Sprinkler,听was听published in 2013. 听

His fans are many, including Charles McGrath of The New York Times ("Baker is one of the most beautiful, original and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades."), Time magazine's Lev Grossman ("His prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains."), The Washington Post's Carolyn See ("Nicholson Baker is such a swell, smart writer that he rarely - maybe never - tips his hand鈥�")

In Baker's view, the mundane, closely enough observed, may be the skate key to the sublime."), and the Financial Times of London ("[He] is an essayist in the tradition of GK Chesterton and Max Beerbohm, writing winning fantasies upon whatever chance thoughts may come into his head."

Baker lives with his family in Maine. The 91制片厂 Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic, Edmund G. Miller, and the Hall Kenyon Writer in Residence Funds. For more information call (603) 862-1313.