| 词条 | Kevin Baker (author) |
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| name = Kevin Baker | image = Kevin Baker Photo.jpg | caption = Baker in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}[1] | birth_place = Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. | occupation = Novelist, historian, journalist, political commentator | genre = Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Non-Fiction | website = {{url|kevinbaker.info}} }} Kevin Baker (1958-) is an American novelist, political commentator, and journalist. Early lifeBaker was born in Englewood, New Jersey,[1] and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts.[2][3] As a youth, he worked on the local newspaper Gloucester Daily Times,[1] covering school-boy sports, as well as town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia University in 1980,[1] with a major in political science.[2] CareerIn 1993, Baker's first book, Sometimes You See it Coming (1993),[1] a contemporary baseball novel loosely based on the life of Ty Cobb, was published.[2] He was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, The American Century (1998).[4] He was a columnist ("In the News") for American Heritage magazine from 1998 to 2007.[11] In 2009 appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and The Colbert Report, to discuss the Obama presidency.[5] Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the following historical novels: Dreamland (1998); the bestselling Paradise Alley (2002); and Strivers Row (2006). The middle volume of the trilogy won the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction[6] and the 2003 American Book Award.[7] Paradise Alley was also chosen by bestselling Angela's Ashes author, Frank McCourt, as a Today show book club selection. In 2009, he wrote a Luna Park, a graphic novel illustrated by Croatian artist Danijel Žeželj.[8] A writer of over 200 newspaper and magazine articles, Baker was the recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim fellowship for non-fiction. Baker lives in New York City, where he is a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine[9] and a regular contributor to Politico.com, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The New York Times Book Review. Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 "Kevin (Breen) Baker." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Retrieved via Biography in Context database 2016-06-19. 2. ^1 2 Shafner, Rhonda (December 29, 2002). "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=20021229&id=L9YvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P6MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1806,5559719&hl=en At Home with History: Books Have Long Taken Writer Kevin Baker into the Past]." Reading Eagle (Reading, Pa.). Retrieved via Google News 2016-06-19. 3. ^"Kevin Baker – About." Kevin Baker [author's website]. kevinbaker.info. Retrieved 2016-06-19. 4. ^Reynolds, David S. (October 11, 1998). "[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/books/the-march-of-time.html The March of Time: The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker]" [book review]. New York Times. "... with the help of a research team headed by Kevin Baker, [Evans] has culled a staggering amount of information from other history books." 5. ^"Book Discussion on Barack Hoover Obama" (June 21, 2009). C-SPAN. www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2016-06-19. 6. ^"[https://sah.columbia.edu/content/prizes/james-fenimore-cooper-prize James Fenimore Cooper Prize]." Society of American Historians. Retrieved 2016-06-19. 7. ^"Before Columbus Foundation Presents the American Book Awards 2003" [press release]. Before Columbus Foundation. Available as PDF file on the foundation's website (www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com). Retrieved 2016-06-19. 8. ^Kois, Dan (January 13, 2010). "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011203280.html Book World reviews the graphic novel 'Luna Park' by Kevin Baker]" [book review]. Washington Post. 9. ^1 "Kevin (Breen) Baker." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database 2016-06-19. Further readingKevin Baker's Personal Website{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Kevin}} 16 : Living people|1958 births|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American male writers|21st-century American novelists|American columnists|American male journalists|American male novelists|James Fenimore Cooper Prize winners|People from Rockport, Massachusetts|People from Englewood, New Jersey|Date of birth missing (living people)|Novelists from Massachusetts|Novelists from New Jersey|American Book Award winners|21st-century American non-fiction writers |
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