Leonard Baker
Leonard Baker | |
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Born | (1931-01-24)January 24, 1931 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | November 23, 1984(1984-11-23) (aged 53) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
Notable works | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews |
Leonard S. Baker (January 24, 1931 – November 23, 1984) was an American writer.
He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-502800-7), a book about Leo Baeck.
His other published works include The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency, Back to Back: The Duel Between FDR and the Supreme Court, John Marshall: A Life in Law, Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography, Brahmin in Revolt, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, and The Guaranteed Society.
A 1952 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Arts and Sciences, Baker was a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1955 to 1956 and for Newsday from 1956 to 1965. He was married to Liva Baker (1930–2007), author of The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes and other books, and had two children, David Baker and Sara Baker.
References
- "Leonard S. Baker, 54, Dies; Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979". The New York Times. November 26, 1984. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
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- R. W. B. Lewis (1976)
- John E. Mack (1977)
- Walter Jackson Bate (1978)
- Leonard Baker (1979)
- Edmund Morris (1980)
- Robert K. Massie (1981)
- William S. McFeely (1982)
- Russell Baker (1983)
- Louis R. Harlan (1984)
- Kenneth Silverman (1985)
- Elizabeth Frank (1986)
- David J. Garrow (1987)
- David Herbert Donald (1988)
- Richard Ellmann (1989)
- Sebastian de Grazia (1990)
- Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (1991)
- Lewis B. Puller (1992)
- David McCullough (1993)
- David Levering Lewis (1994)
- Joan D. Hedrick (1995)
- Jack Miles (1996)
- Frank McCourt (1997)
- Katharine Graham (1998)
- A. Scott Berg (1999)
- Stacy Schiff (2000)
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