Author Biography
Nicholson Baker has published seven novels, including the New York Times bestseller Vox and The Mezzanine. He has also written three works of nonfiction, including Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Baker lives in Maine. Norman Dietz is a writer, an actor, and a solo performer. Since 1962, he has toured coast to coast, presenting his work before audiences all over the United States and Canada. He is the author of the comic novel Nailing It, as well as Fables & Vaudevilles & Plays and The Lifeguard and the Mermaid, collections of his work for the stage. Norman has also performed frequently on radio and television, and he has recorded over 150 audiobooks, many of which have earned him awards from AudioFile magazine, the ALA, and Publishers Weekly. Additionally, AudioFile named Norman one of the Best Voices of the Century. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
