[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fUudKOhZsuVoMQ4zQ3t3gLIZPbSNPpY8JIUZN0TXsQy4":3,"$fdegNyAD8ZgzLCz2DITGt68KlPjO-w260duzlyFao82U":59},{"author":4,"tags":50},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"bio_jsonld":11,"slug":48,"image_url":49},12613,"Nicholson Baker","N",148,"Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and writer, born in New York City on January 7, 1957.\n\nBaker received his education across three institutions: the School Without Walls, the Eastman School of Music, and Haverford College. This passage through music conservatory training and liberal arts study preceded his career as a novelist working in the English language.\n\nThe Mezzanine stands among his notable works. Baker has received recognition in both literary and public-interest spheres, earning a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.\n\nThe breadth of those honors — spanning fiction, nonfiction, and freedom of information advocacy — reflects the range of work Baker has produced as an American novelist and writer.","Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and writer, born in New York City on January 7, 1957.",{"@graph":12,"@context":47},[13,24],{"@id":14,"name":6,"@type":15,"sameAs":16,"birthDate":22,"description":23},"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929421","Person",[14,17,18,19,20,21],"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Baker","https://viaf.org/viaf/54187933/","https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88065097","https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL392227A","https://d-nb.info/gnd/11900450X","1957-01-07","American novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer",{"@type":25,"author":26,"headline":29,"isBasedOn":30,"mainEntity":31,"reviewedBy":32,"articleBody":9,"dateCreated":33,"dateModified":34,"additionalProperty":35,"creativeWorkStatus":46},"Article",{"name":27,"@type":28},"Editorial Team","Organization","Nicholson Baker — biography",[14,17,19,20],{"@id":14},{"name":27,"@type":28},"2026-05-24T03:37:12.213213+00:00","2026-05-24T03:45:00.929941+00:00",[36,40,43],{"@type":37,"value":38,"propertyID":39},"PropertyValue","Q1929421","wikidata",{"@type":37,"value":41,"propertyID":42},"1.000","factscore",{"@type":37,"value":44,"propertyID":45},"claude-sonnet-4-6-r1","draftModel","AI-drafted, auto-published","https://schema.org","nicholson-baker",null,[51,55],{"tag_id":52,"tag_name":53,"tag_count":54},56,"thinking",9,{"tag_id":56,"tag_name":57,"tag_count":58},60,"writing",5,{"quotes":60,"pagination":124},[61,69,76,82,88,94,100,106,112,118],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":64,"has_image":65,"author":66,"source":67,"quote_tag":68,"commentary":49},3856862,"I've always thought of myself as shy.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":73,"source":74,"quote_tag":75,"commentary":49},3313820,"Sometimes, despite the fact that you’re reading through masses of material, you just can’t not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":77,"quote_text":78,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":79,"source":80,"quote_tag":81,"commentary":49},3313815,"I’m suspicious of full-replacement programs – that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":83,"quote_text":84,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":85,"source":86,"quote_tag":87,"commentary":49},3313812,"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":89,"quote_text":90,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":91,"source":92,"quote_tag":93,"commentary":49},3313805,"Most writers are secretly worried that they’re not really writers. That it’s all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won’t coalesce ever again.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":95,"quote_text":96,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":97,"source":98,"quote_tag":99,"commentary":49},3313800,"Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions – the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":101,"quote_text":102,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":103,"source":104,"quote_tag":105,"commentary":49},3313781,"I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":107,"quote_text":108,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":109,"source":110,"quote_tag":111,"commentary":49},3313777,"It’s true that I don’t rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":113,"quote_text":114,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":115,"source":116,"quote_tag":117,"commentary":49},3313773,"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":119,"quote_text":120,"author_id":5,"source_id":72,"has_image":65,"author":121,"source":122,"quote_tag":123,"commentary":49},3313750,"In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I’m trying to get at more efficiently.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"currentPage":125,"totalPages":126,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":127},1,15,10]