Baker, Nicholson (1957– )

US novelist. His first novel, The Mezzanine (1988), was followed by Room Temperature (1990), Vox (1992), and The Fermata (1994). Often pornographic, his novels are notable for their attention to detail and lack of plot, with common themes being sex and assassination.

Baker was born in Rochester, New York, and worked as a Wall Street oil analyst and stockbroker before turning to writing. In 1991 he published U and I: A True Story, an autobiographical work about his fixation with the writer John Updike.