THE NIMBUS
A NOVEL

Thanks for visiting my website! The Nimbus, my debut novel, is out now from Holt. To learn more about the book click here. To find out where I'll be reading on book tour click here. If you're looking for my non-Nimbus writing, click here. And if you'd like to get your hands on a copy of The Nimbus, visit your local bookstore or at any of these fine retailers:

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Baird's debut carefully considers the role of faith in a world largely devoid of it…. Intriguing, entertaining, and often searing in its critiques of academia, this is also a fascinating portrait of a family pulled apart by ambition and unexpected events.

I think that there are miracles in the world, but realistic novels don’t usually tackle them. Baird’s intelligence, compassion and humor illuminate this astonishingly original debut, which somehow manages to ask hard questions about how to live while also being enormously fun to read.

A big-hearted novel about the biggest questions—marriage, religion, parenthood, meaning. The Nimbus is comic and profound, a novel that practically glows. Robert P. Baird is a huge talent.

I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed getting lost in the pages of a novel this much. Set in an academic milieu that is captured with delicious precision, and populated with intricately drawn characters as intelligent and compelling as they are believable, The Nimbus is as humane and psychologically astute as it is entertaining—the kind of novel that reminds you why you read fiction in the first place.

Robert P. Baird has written a novel of remarkable breadth, one that ponders both the big mysteries (God, miracles) and the small ones (petty graduate school advisers). The Nimbus is a revelation, a book that explores our deep longing for something extraordinary in an otherwise ordinary world.

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About Me

Hi, thanks for visiting my website!

My debut novel, The Nimbus, will be published in June 2025 by Holt. You can find links to journalism, essays, and other stuff I've written here. I have a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and have worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Chicago Review, and Esquire.

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