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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]
Jan 1, 2008 · Drawing from extensive research in India, undiscovered letters, journals, and memoirs, acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker has woven a many layered literary mystery out of Ginsberg's odyssey. A Blue Hand follows him and his companions as they travel from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium dens and the burning pyres of Benares.
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Deborah Baker is an American author of biographies and non-fiction books. She has written about Robert Bly, Laura Riding, the Beats, and the life of an American convert to Islam.
May 20, 2011 · 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...
Deborah Baker is the author of The Last Englishmen, a book about love, war and the end of empire. She also writes essays on culture, history and politics.
May 10, 2011 · 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...
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Deborah Baker was born in Charlottesville and grew up in Virginia, Puerto Rico and New England. She attended the University of Virginia and Cambridge University. Her first biography, written in college, was Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly, published by Beacon Press in 1982.
