Who is Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. 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."Background
Born in Loudoun County, Virginia, Baker was the son of Benjamin Rex Baker and Lucy Elizabeth (née Robinson). At the age of eleven, as a self-professed "bump on a log," Baker decided to become a writer...
Read Full Biography of Russell Baker
Russell Baker Poems
Top 10 most used topics by Russell Baker
Russell Baker Quotes
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
- Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Comments about Russell Baker
Snoofygoat: baker mayfield, russell wilson and sam howellNbamuse24: on this day 2 years ago, russell westbrook put up one of the most insane statlines in nba history in a 132-124 win over the pacers. the only 35/10/20 game in league history.
Freestreamspor7: today's high school softball live stream baker vs. st. paul's episcopal hale county vs. demopolis pell city vs. central park crossing vs. russell county el modena vs. norco
Ar4mvp: 13) tua tagovailoa 14) matthew stafford 15) mac jones 16) (kyler murray) 17) justin fields 18) jimmy garoppolo 19) geno smith 20) derek carr 21) daniel jones 22) brock purdy 23) kenny pickett 24) baker mayfield 25) russell wilson 26) ryan tannehill 27) sam howell
Horseraces_bot: 2:15 at russell fields 1. moon odds 2. wakima 3. baker crank 4. censulu 5. domptor
Read All Comments
