Deborah Baker

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 that 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 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] In 2012, she wrote a critical review for the Wall Street Journal of Defender of the Realm, the Manchester-Reid biography of Winston Churchill.[6]

Baker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[7]

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. ↑ "Featured Articles From the Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ↑ Adams, Lorraine (2011-05-20). "Book Review - The Convert - By Deborah Baker". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
  6. ↑ wsj.com: "The Last Stand of Winston Churchill" (Baker) 9 Nov 2012
  7. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=&lower_bound=2014&upper_bound=2014&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=24&y=12