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Michael Dirda

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: November 05 1948

Michael Dirda , a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic. After earning a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University, the joined the Washington Post in 1978.

Two collections of Dirda's literary journalism have been published: Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments and Bound to Please . He has also written Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life , Classics for Pleasure , critical biographical study On Conan Doyle , which received a 2012 Edgar Award, and the autobiographical An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland .

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Michael Dirda

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: November 05 1948

Michael Dirda , a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic. After earning a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University, the joined the Washington Post in 1978.

Two collections of Dirda's literary journalism have been published: Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments and Bound to Please . He has also written Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life , Classics for Pleasure , critical biographical study On Conan Doyle , which received a 2012 Edgar Award, and the autobiographical An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_...

Books from Michael Dirda

The Manticore

Red Cavalry

Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Foundation/Foundation and Empire/Second Foundation

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Classics for Pleasure

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education

4.2/5 ( ratings)

On Conan Doyle

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Dante: Poet of the Secular World

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Green Man

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

4.6/5 ( ratings)

I Am Jonathan Scrivener

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

4.4/5 ( ratings)

An Odyssey In Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Unfortunate Fursey

4.7/5 ( ratings)

The Richard Peabody Reader

4.8/5 ( ratings)

The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature