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Michael Dirda

Author of Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

Also known as: M Dirda, Michael Dirda, Micheal Dirda

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Books by Michael Dirda

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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life 276 copies, 6 reviews
Bound to Please 219 copies, 4 reviews
Classics for Pleasure 196 copies, 3 reviews
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments 167 copies, 2 reviews
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland 152 copies, 3 reviews
Caring for your books 99 copies
Booked Up; Nicholas Basbanes and the world of bibliomania.(Every Book Its… 3 copies
Book by book : notes on reading life 2 copies
Bound To Please 1 copy
'Joseph Conrad examined: how the author taught readers to see' in AFR, 9… 1 copy
Souls hungering after meaning: in Aegypt, John Crowley's… 1 copy
'This Woman is Dangerous' in NYRB 56/11, 2 July 2009 [review of Patricia… 1 copy
'The secrets of Casanova ... more fact than fiction' in AFR, 8 June 2007… 1 copy
'Caught in the winepress of love' in AFR, 2 June 2006 [review of Cavafy's… 1 copy

'Give me a condor's quill!' in AFR, 21 Oct 2005 [review of Andrew… 1 copy

'I am made of literature' in AFR, 28 Dec 2005-2 Jan 2006 [review of Reiner… 1 copy

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Date of birth

1948

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Gender

male

Nationality

USA

Places of residence

Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Education

Oberlin College

Cornell University (Ph.D., comparative literature)

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The Washington Post

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize (Criticism, 1993)

Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Washington College)

Fulbright Fellowship to France

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