Deborah Baker
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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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[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]
Family
She is married to the 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]
Works
- Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; Charlottesville, Va., 1981. Template:Catalog lookup link
- In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding; New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
- A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; New York : Penguin Press, 2008. Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
- The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf, 2013. Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
- The Last Englishmen, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018. Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
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