Born: 7-Jan-1957
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Double Fold

Wife: Margaret Brentano (m. 1985, two children)

    Conservatory: Eastman School of Music
    University: BA Philosophy, Haverford College (1979)

    American Newspaper Repository Founder (1999)
    National Book Critics Circle Award 2001 for Double Fold (nonfiction)

Author of books:
The Mezzanine (1988, novel)
Room Temperature (1990, novel)
U and I: A True Story (1991, nonfiction)
Vox: A Novel (1992, novel)
The Fermata (1994, novel)
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (1996, essays)
The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998, novel)
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (2001, nonfiction)
A Box of Matches (2003, novel)
Checkpoint (2004, novel)
The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898–1911) (2005, nonfiction, with Margaret Brentano)
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization (2008, nonfiction)
The Anthologist (2009, novel)

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