Michael Dirda is a weekly book columnist for The Washington Post as well as a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other periodicals. He is the author of a memoir, five collections of essays, and …

The Great Age of Storytelling (Knopf, forthcoming). Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books (New York: Pegasus, 2015). On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Winner of the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical work; Classics for Pleasure (Orlando: Harcourt, 2007). Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life ...

Profile of Michael Dirda in “The Hook,” Charlottesville, Virginia weekly newspaper, 2009 . Interview with Michael Dirda, The Cornell Book Review, inaugural issue, 2009. Speaker and panelist, The First Ohio Book Festival (Columbus, 2007) Lecturer, “Isaac Babel: I …

Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book columnist for The Washington Post, is the author of five collections of essays—Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, Classics for Pleasure and Browsings—and of the memoir An Open Book.

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