Dirda, Michael
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1948- ) US editor, journalist and author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his journalism; as a Book World editor for the Washington Post (1978-2003) he was an influential advocate of sf as a form of literature worth serious attention, creating and editing a monthly sf column by various critics, as well as making room for individual reviews. He now writes a weekly column for the Post; his work also appears in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. He is in his own right a genuinely competent sf critic, examples of his responses featuring in various collections, beginning with Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (coll 2000). On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling (2011) deals not only with Sherlock Holmes but with Arthur Conan Doyle's sf as well. [JC]
Michael Dirda
born Lorain, Ohio: 6 November 1948
works (selected)
- Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Susan Davis]
- Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (New York: Henry Holt, 2006) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]
- On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2011) [nonfiction: Arthur Conan Doyle: hb/from E O Hoppé]
links
- Michael Dirda: Washington Post reviews archive
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Picture Gallery
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