Charles Baxter
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Charles Baxter is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. Pantheon published his most recent collection, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, in 2011. Vintage has just reissued his novel First Light, from 1987. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.