Stephen L. Baker

Stephen L. Baker is a senior writer at BusinessWeek [http://www.businessweek.com/bios/Stephen_Baker.htm] . He co-writes a blog called Blogspotting.net. He also created the website thenumerati.net to chronicle the development and publication of his book The Numerati and to discuss the application of techniques covered within its pages to its marketing.

Baker grew up in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended Harriton High School and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he majored in Spanish and History. He attended the University of Madrid in Spain during his junior year. He later received a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York.

He began his professional career at the Black River Tribune, a weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont. After working in Venezuela and Ecuador, he spent a year at the El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post. A year later he was BusinessWeek's bureau chief in Mexico City.

Baker has also written for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He received an Overseas Press Club Award for his portrait of the rising Mexican auto industry.

He has written an unpublished novel "Donkey Show", which is set on the border between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Baker currently resides in Montclair, NJ, with his wife, Jalaire, and son, Henry. He has two other sons, Jack and Aidan, who are away studying.

External links

* [http://www.pdxjustice.org/#BakerS_25Sep2008 The Numerati] , presentation and reading by Stephen L. Baker, September 25, 2008, Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon (from his recent book tour).