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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]
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.
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...
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...
Deborah Baker | Biographer / Essayist. The Last Englishmen. Love, War and the End of Empire. "Deborah Baker combines a novelistic alertness to the inner life with an anthropologist's understanding of multiple cultures and a historian's eye for major events.
A cache of Maryam's letters to her parents in the archives of The New York Public Library sends acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker on her own odyssey into the labyrinthine heart of 20th century Islam.
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.
