Deborah Baker

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Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa.[1] She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India[2] and of Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994.[3] She also writes for the Los Angeles Times.[4] Her latest 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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "BOOKS: Deborah Baker's "A Blue Hand: The Beats in India"". SAJAforum. 2008-03-21. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 
  2. ↑ Celia McGee (2008-04-13). "Om Sweet Om". India: Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 
  3. ↑ Richard Ellmann. "The Pulitzer Prizes; Biography or Autobiography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 
  4. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/writers/deborah-baker
  5. ↑ Adams, Lorraine (2011-05-20). "Book Review - The Convert - By Deborah Baker". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-16. 


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