Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project,[1] succeeding Andries Brouwer.

Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, Google, The Linux Foundation[3] and, as an editor and writer, for LWN.net.

He is best known for his book The Linux Programming Interface,[5] published by No Starch Press[6] in 2010.

This book is widely regarded[7] as the definitive work on Linux system programming and has been translated into several languages.

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