Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally deemphasizes 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, 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 in 2014. Baker has also written about and edited at Wikipedia. A pacifist, he has also written about the buildup to World War II.
Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 in New York City and spent much of his youth in the Rochester, New York area. He studied briefly at the Eastman School of Music and received a B.A. in English from Haverford College.
Source: Wikipedia