Robert P BairdRobert P. Baird grew up in northern California, studied mechanical engineering and human biology at Stanford, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine The Paris Review, and Esquire, and has written about poetry, politics, pandemics, treasure hunts, and wildfires for a variety of publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children. The Nimbus is his first novel. Read More Read Less