Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda (born 1948), a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic for the Washington Post.
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[edit] Career
Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree, Dirda took a Ph.D. from Cornell University in comparative literature. In 1978 Dirda started writing for the Washington Post; in 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his criticism.[1] Currently, he writes for the "Book World" section of the Post.[2]
[edit] Works
Two collections of Dirda's literary journalism have been published: Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000; ISBN 0-253-33824-7) and Bound to Please (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005; ISBN 0-393-05757-7). He has also written Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (New York: Henry Holt, 2005; ISBN 0-8050-7877-0), Classics for Pleasure (Orlando: Harcourt, 2007; ISBN 0-151-01251-2), On Conan Doyle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011; ISBN 0-691-15135-0), and the autobiographical An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003; ISBN 0-393-05756-9).[3]
[edit] Family
Dirda lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Marian Peck Dirda, a prints and drawings conservator at the National Gallery of Art. They have three sons: Christopher (b. 1984), Michael (b. 1987), and Nathaniel (b. 1990). [4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich; Fischer, Erika J. (2002). Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917–2000. The Pulitzer Prize Archive. 16. Munich: K. G. Saur. p. 58. ISBN 3-598-30186-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=-2o4Ywn4LJwC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ Dirda, Michael (25 March 2005). "XXX". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032502159.html. Retrieved 05 October 2010.
- ^ "Local Author Bibliography: Michael Dirda". Lorain Public Library System. http://www.lorain.lib.oh.us/author_bibliography.aspx?PID=71&ID=3. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ "WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors: Michael Dirda". Ohioana Authors. http://www.ohioana-authors.org/dirda/highlights.php. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
[edit] External links
- Book World
- Michael Dirda "Style" section archive at The Washington Post
- Michael Dirda book review archive at The Washington Post
- Michael Dirda archive from The New York Review of Books
- "Catalog Reading", by Sam Sacks. Review of Michael Dirda's Classics for Pleasure
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