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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He has published six previous novels—The Mezzanine (1988), Room Temperature (1990), Vox (1992), The Fermata (1994), The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998), and A Box of Matches (2003) — and three works of nonfiction, U and I (1991), The Size of Thoughts (1996), and Double Fold (2001), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Maine with his wife and two children.