Deborah Baker | |
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| Born | Charlottesville |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, Cambridge University |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Award |
| Spouse | Amitav Ghosh |
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.[failed verification][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]
- ^ Celia McGee (2008-04-13). "Om Sweet Om". The New York Times. India. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ Richard Ellmann. "The Pulitzer Prizes; Biography or Autobiography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ "Featured Articles From the Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009.
- ^ Adams, Lorraine (2011-05-20). "Book Review - The Convert - By Deborah Baker". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ wsj.com: "The Last Stand of Winston Churchill" (Baker) 9 Nov 2012