Deborah Baker

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Deborah Baker
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BornCharlottesville
Alma materUniversity of Virginia,
Cambridge University
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship,
Whiting Award
Spouse Amitav Ghosh

Deborah Baker is an American biographer and essayist.

Contents

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]

Family

She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa. [6]

Awards

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

In 2016, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her book, The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire. [8]

Works

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References

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  2. Richard Ellmann. "The Pulitzer Prizes; Biography or Autobiography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
  3. "Featured Articles From the Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009.
  4. Adams, Lorraine (2011-05-20). "Book Review - The Convert - By Deborah Baker". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
  5. wsj.com: "The Last Stand of Winston Churchill" (Baker) 9 Nov 2012
  6. "BOOKS: Deborah Baker's "A Blue Hand: The Beats in India"". SAJAforum. 2008-03-21. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
  7. "Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
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