Author Nicholson Baker autographs a fan’s thigh

Even authors have groupies. Nicholson Baker — who wrote “The Anthropologist,” “Vox” and “The Fermata” — had just finished a presentation and was signing books at Marymount Manhattan College the other night when an attractive young woman from Georgia came running up, breathless, to the podium and said to Baker in a flirty drawl, “I’m sorry I’m late. I’m your biggest fan. Would you sign something for me?” After the surprised and flattered Baker answered “Yes,” the woman lifted her skirt waist-high in front of everyone and asked the blushing Baker to sign her thigh. Which he did. “First time that’s ever happened to me,” Baker told the college’s Lewis Frumkes.