Deborah Baker Explained
| Deborah Baker |
| Birth Place: | Charlottesville |
| Alma Mater: | University of Virginia,
Cambridge University |
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| Spouse: | Amitav Ghosh |
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| Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship,
Whiting Award |
Deborah Baker is an American biographer and essayist.
She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India[1] and of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994.[2] She also writes for the Los Angeles Times.[3] Her book The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011) is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus), a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam.[4] In 2012, she wrote a critical review for The Wall Street Journal of Defender of the Realm, the Manchester-Reid biography of Winston Churchill.[5]
Family
She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa.[6]
Awards
Baker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[7]
In 2016, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book, The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire.[8]
Works
- Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; Charlottesville, Va., 1981.
- In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding; New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.,
- A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; New York : Penguin Press, 2008.,
- The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf, 2013.,
- The Last Englishmen, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018.,
External links
Notes and References
- News: Celia McGee . Om Sweet Om . India . The New York Times . 2008-04-13 . 2012-11-16.
- Web site: Richard Ellmann . The Pulitzer Prizes; Biography or Autobiography . Pulitzer.org . 2012-11-16.
- News: Featured Articles From the Los Angeles Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20090714000322/http://articles.latimes.com/writers/deborah-baker . dead . July 14, 2009 . Los Angeles Times .
- News: Adams . Lorraine . Book Review - The Convert - By Deborah Baker . The New York Times . 2011-05-20 . 2012-11-16.
- https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204530504578077051308225418 wsj.com: "The Last Stand of Winston Churchill" (Baker) 9 Nov 2012
- Web site: BOOKS: Deborah Baker's "A Blue Hand: The Beats in India" . SAJAforum . 2008-03-21 . 2012-11-16.
- Web site: Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2015-01-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105927/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=&lower_bound=2014&upper_bound=2014&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=24&y=12 . 2015-04-02 .
- Web site: 2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Deborah Baker. Whiting.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20180125020100/https://www.whiting.org/awards/content/deborah-baker . 24 January 2018. 2018-01-25 .
