Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Nicholson Baker (born 1957) is an American novelist and essayist renowned for his meticulous prose and focus on everyday minutiae in works like The Mezzanine (1988), Room Temperature (1990), and the erotic bestseller Vox (1992), as well as non-fiction such as Double Fold (2001), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. House. He has also received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award, Calw Hermann Hesse Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowship, and published Finding a Likeness in 2024.