 Hilbert writes about books for "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", and "The Hopkins Review".Hilbert lives in the University City section of Philadelphia with his wife, Lynn Makowsky, who is the Keith Devries Keeper of the Mediterranean Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Hilbert is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the Academy of American Poets, the Royal Society of Literature (London), the Philobiblon Club, Fine Press Book Association, and a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle.