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“The Convert is the most brilliant and moving book written about Islam and the West since 9/11.” ― Ahmed Rashid “[Deborah] Baker's captivating account conveys the instability, faith, politics, and improbable cultural migration that make [Maryam] Jameelah's life story so difficult to sum up yet impossible to dismiss.”
Aug 21, 2018 · In Deborah Baker's new book, "The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire", she covers both individuals and groups, Indian and British, who were important in the last 50 years of Empire. During British rule of India, the colony was often a dumping ground of sorts for Brits of both genders.
*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with ...
Nov 1, 2000 · Deborah Baker iUniverse , Nov 1, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 508 pages In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream.
Jul 16, 2019 · Deborah Baker is the author of The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire; Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in India and New York.
Sep 7, 2018 · THE LAST ENGLISHMEN Love, War, and the End of Empire By Deborah Baker 358 pp. Graywolf Press. $28.. Imagine my surprise. More than half a century ago, I was taught geology at Oxford by a ...
May 20, 2011 · Deborah Baker is a serious biographer who specializes in fairly crazy writers. Her study of the poet Laura Riding, who survived a suicide attempt in 1929, during her 14-year ménage-à-trois with ...
