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  1. Jun 3, 2011 · Deborah Baker, who based her account of Jameelah's life largely on troves of correspondence (which Jameelah gave her permission to use), calls her story a parable of Islam and America.

  2. Jan 17, 2019 · In The Last Englishmen, Deborah Baker attempts to capture the tumultuous couple of decades leading up to India’s independence through the lives and minds of a remarkable cast of characters spread across continents and scaling alarming altitudes. It reads like the clinching argument for Frigyes Karinthy’s “six degrees of separation” proposition, as Baker traces the intertwined lives of John Auden and Michael Spender (older brothers of the poets, W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender), Nancy ...

  3. Deborah Baker has 25 books on Goodreads with 3693 ratings. Deborah Baker’s most popular book is The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism.

  4. Deborah Baker is the author of Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly, In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1994, A Blue Hand: The Beats in India and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, which was a finalist for the […]

  5. Sep 4, 2012 · The life story of Maryam Jameelah seems to have alternately fascinated, disturbed, and unsettled Deborah Baker. It is guaranteed to do the same to her readers.” ― Christian Science Monitor “[Baker] opens the door to the vital questions of how radical Islam has impacted the world, and what part converts such as [Maryam] Jameelah have ...

  6. Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. Her books include In Extremis: A Life of Laura Riding and A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. "Bengali Baboo" is excerpted ...

  7. Born in Charlottesville, Deborah Baker grew up in Virginia, Puerto Rico and New England. In 1990 she moved to Calcutta where she wrote In Extremis, a biography of the American modernist poet, Laura Riding which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.