Deborah Baker
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Cambridge University
Whiting Award
Deborah Baker | |
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| Born | March 28, 1959 Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, Cambridge University |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Award |
| Spouse | Amitav Ghosh |
Deborah Baker is an American biographer and essayist. She was born on March 28, 1959, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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]
She is married to the Indian Bengali 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]
