Born: 21-Sep-1951
Birthplace: Pontiac, MI

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Gutenberg Elegies

Father: Gunnar Birkerts (architect, b. 17-Jan-1925)
Mother: Sylvia
Wife: Lynn (one son, one daughter)
Son: Liam
Daughter: Mara

    High School: Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
    University: BA, University of Michigan (1973)

Author of books:
An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature (1987, criticism)
The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry (1989, criticism)
American Energies: Essays on Fiction (1992, criticism)
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994, criticism)
Readings (1999, criticism)
My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time (2002, memoir)
The Other Walk: Essays (2011, essays)
Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age (2015, criticism)

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