![]() Neil Postman, in the preface to Conscientious Objections, describes Baker as " like some fourth century citizen of Rome who is amused and intrigued by the Empire's collapse but who still cares enough to mock the stupidities that are hastening its end. In 1993, Baker began hosting the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre. His 1983 autobiography, Growing Up earned him a second Pulitzer. “ The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer,” wrote Baker, “ and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.” In 1979, Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in his “ Observer” column for the New York Times (1962 to 1998). Baker managed to get himself into Johns Hopkins University, where he studied journalism.īaker’s wit as a humorist has been compared with that of Mark Twain. His father died early on and his hard-working mother reared him and his sisters during the Great Depression. ![]() On August 14, 1925, US journalist, humorist and biographer Russell Baker was born in Loudoun County, Virginia. ![]()
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