Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda is the winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He has been an editor and writer for The Washington Post Book World for the past twenty years. His tasks range from writing reviews of literary fiction, intellectual history, children's books, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, poetry, and biography, to features and personal essays about books and writing for the Book World column, Readings. A Fulbright Fellowship recipient, received his bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and his doctorate in comparative literature from Cornell University. He is the author of a charming and useful pamphlet, CARING FOR YOUR BOOKS, which was published by the Book-of the-Month Club in 1990.
BOOK BY BOOK: Notes on Reading and Life (Henry Holt & Co., 2006)
BOUND TO PLEASE: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education (W. W. Norton & Co., 2004)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE (Harcourt, 2007)
ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton University Press, 2011)
AN OPEN BOOK: Coming of Age in the Heartland (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003)
READINGS: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Indiana University Press, 2000)
