Oral history of Russell Baker

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1999-07-13
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Russell Baker, born August 14, 1925 in Morrisonville, Virginia, a small town across the state line from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia and not far from Frederick, Maryland, is a notable American author and Hopkins alumnus. An essayist and journalist for many years, Baker won his first of two Pulitzer Prizes in 1979 for his writing for The New York Times. He is notably one of the longest-running columnists in the history of the New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. Three years later, his first autobiography, Growing Up, won Baker his second Pulitzer. The primary subject of this first autobiography, his most well-known work, was his childhood in Virginia during the Great Depression, while the focus of his second autobiography, Good Times, was his extensive and varied half-century career in journalism, including a close look at his time with The Baltimore Sun. In this oral history, Russell Baker describes his childhood, World War II, and his student days at Hopkins (1942-1947), specifically his courses in English, his work with the News-Letter, and his general impressions of Hopkins. This oral history is a part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.
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Baker, Russell, 1925-, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City College, Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900-1984, Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971, Murnaghan, Francis D. (Francis Dominic), 1893-1976, Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960, Malone, Kemp, 1889-1971, Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972, Malakis, Emile, 1897-, Lancaster, Henry Carrington, 1882-1954, Rodbell, Martin, 1925-1998, Coleman, Elliott, 1906-1980, Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000, Hammond, Albert L. (Albert Lanphier), 1892-1970, Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, Muller, Steven, 1927-2013, Hiss, Alger, Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989
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