Michael Dirda
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Michael Dirda (born 1948) , a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is an award-winning book critic for the Washington Post. 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.
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), and the autobiographical An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003; ISBN 0-393-05756-9).
Dirda lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Marian. They have three sons: Christopher (b. 1984), Michael (b. 1987), and Nathaniel (b. 1990).
[edit] External links
- Michael Dirda archive at The Washington Post
- A review of Michael Dirda's most recent book Classics for Pleasure
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