Deborah Baker
Biographer, Author
1959 –
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Who is Deborah Baker?
Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India and of Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for the Los Angeles Times. Her latest book, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, is a biography of Maryam Jameelah a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam.
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- Born
- 1959
Charlottesville - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Virginia
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on July 23, 2013
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