Russell Baker | |
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Born | Russell Wayne Baker August 14, 1925 Loudoun County, Virginia, U.S. |
Died | January 21, 2019 Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 93)
Education | The Baltimore City College ("Magnet" - high school), The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) |
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Notable work | Growing Up |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize (1979, 1983) |
Russell Wayne Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983).[1] He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1993 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."[2]