Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts. Baker appeared on CSPAN Washington Journal in September 2009 to discuss the Barack Obama Presidency.
As a youth Baker worked on the Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia University, where he major...
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Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts. Baker appeared on CSPAN Washington Journal in September 2009 to discuss the Barack Obama Presidency.
As a youth Baker worked on the Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia University, where he majored in political science, in 1980.
Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the following historical novels: Dreamland; the bestselling Paradise Alley; and Strivers Row. The middle volume of the trilogy was the winner of the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction. He has also written a contemporary baseball novel called Sometimes You See it Coming, and he was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, The American Century...
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