Robert P. Baird grew up in Northern California, studied mechanical engineering and human biology at Stanford, and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Chicago Review and Esquire and has published journalism, essays and reviews in those magazines and other outlets. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children. “The Nimbus” is his first novel.
