Growing Up (memoir)
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| Growing Up | |
|---|---|
| Author | Russell Baker |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Congdon & Weed |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Pages | 278 pp. |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
| ISBN | 0-86553-054-8 |
| OCLC | 8628636 |
| LC Class | PS3552.A4343 Z466 1982 |
Growing Up is a 1982 memoir by author and journalist Russell Baker. An autobiography chronicling Baker's youth in Virginia and his mother's strength of character during the Great Depression, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1983.
References
- Andrea Chambers, Those Funnybones Grew from a Depression-Era Virginia Boyhood, People, December 20, 1982
- New York State Writers Institute
- Richard Lingeman, Suspiciously like Real Life, The New York Times, October 17, 1982
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