I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.
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Nicholson Baker
Contemporary American novelist and writer
United States · b. 1957
Arts and letters
About
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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