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Michael Dirda (born 1948) is an American book critic, working for the Washington Post. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
May 31, 2024 · Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and author of the memoir “An Open Book,” the Edgar Award-winning...
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 a prize-winning book about Arthur Conan Doyle.
Michael Dirda is a book columnist for The Washington Post and a freelance writer and essayist. He has written several books on literature, including The Great Age of Storytelling, On Conan Doyle, and Bound to Please, and has contributed introductions, forewords and afterwords to many classics and modern works.
Nov 17, 2022 · A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. Books of the past not only add to our understanding. They offer repose, renewal and perspective. Also, they can be fun. Perspective by Michael...
Explore the works of Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of books on reading, writing, and storytelling. Find out about his latest book, The Great Age of Storytelling, and his previous titles on topics ranging from Conan Doyle to Classics.
Consider one more detail: In 1788 John Lempriere, a young classicist in his early 20s, brought out a dictionary that established itself, for well over a century, as the standard guide to classical mythology. Three innocent-seeming bits of history: a business, a massacre, a reference book.
