Growing Up, Russell Baker
Growing Up, Russell Baker
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Growing Up

Author: Russell Baker

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2017

Synopsis

In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise. These were Depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships made the man.

Author Bio

Russell Baker has been charming readers for years with his astute political commentary and biting cerebral wit. The noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer has written or edited numerous books, and was the author of the nationally syndicated "Observer" column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. Called by Robert Sherrill of the Washington Post Book World, "the supreme satirist of this half-century," Baker is most famous for turning the daily gossip of most newspapers into the stuff of laugh-out-loud literature.

Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1979, in recognition of his "Observer" column. He received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography, Growing Up. In addition to his regular column and many books, Baker has also edited the anthologies The Norton Book of Light Verse and Russell Baker's Book of American Humor.

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