Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts. [ [http://www.kevinbaker.info/about.html Biography] , KevinBaker.info. Accessed November 25, 2007.]

As a youth Baker worked on the "Gloucester Daily Times", covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia, where he majored in political science, in 1980.

Baker is the author of the "City of Fire" trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the historical novels, Dreamland, the bestselling "Paradise Alley" and "Strivers Row". He has also written a contemporary baseball novel called, Sometimes You See it Coming, and was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, "The American Century".

Baker resides in New York where he is a contributing editor to Harper’s magazine as well as a columnist with American Heritage magazine, and a regular contributor to "The New York Times" and "The New York Times Book Review".

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External links

* [http://www.kevinbaker.info/ Baker's website]


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