1925
Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (died 2019)
Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (died 2019)
Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (died 2019)
Russell Baker
American writer and satirist (1925–2019)
- Born
- 1925
Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."