- Carlos Baker
Carlos Baker (
May 5 ,1909 –April 18 ,1987 ) was theWoodrow Wilson Professor of Literature atPrinceton University . He earned hisB.A. , M.A. andPh.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 ofErnest Hemingway . His other major works included a biography ofPercy 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 editorMaxwell 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 on2007 -10-30 .] Berg eventually expanded his thesis into theNational Book Award -winning biography "" (1978), which he dedicated in part to Baker. [Berg (1978.) "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius", p. 455.]References
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DE1E38F932A15757C0A961948260 "New York Times" obituary] of Baker
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