Deborah Baker

Who is this?

Deborah Baker is an American biographer and essayist. She was born on March 28, 1959, in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India and of In 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 book The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011) is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus), a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam. In 2012, she wrote a critical review for The Wall Street Journal of Defender of the Realm, the Manchester-Reid biography of Winston Churchill.

Career

1. 1959
   Born
2. Won Guggenheim Fellowship

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Charlottesville
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: essayist, biographer, writer
• •Spouse: Amitav Ghosh