Carlos Baker

Carlos Baker (May 5, 1909 – April 18, 1987) was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A. , M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton respectively. Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary criticisms and essays. In 1969 he published a highly-acclaimed scholarly biography of Ernest Hemingway. His other major works included a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Baker taught biographer A. Scott Berg while Berg was an undergraduate at Princeton in the late 1960s. Berg recalled that Baker "changed my life," and convinced him to quit acting to concentrate on his thesis, a study of editor Maxwell Perkins.Merritt, J. I. [http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/05-1118/1118feat.html "Biographer A. Scott Berg '71 confronts the remarkable -- and still controversial -- flier, 'a great lens for observing the American century'"] , PAW, 1998-11-18. Retrieved on 2007-10-30.] Berg eventually expanded his thesis into the National Book Award-winning biography "" (1978), which he dedicated in part to Baker. [Berg (1978.) "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius", p. 455.]

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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DE1E38F932A15757C0A961948260 "New York Times" obituary] of Baker