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Growing Up
by Baker, Russell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312922671
- ISBN 13
- 9780312922672
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Congdon & Weed, 1982. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 9x6x1. Growing Up is a 1982 memoir by author and journalist Russell Baker. An autobiography chronicling Baker's youth in Virginia and his mother's strength of character during the Great Depression, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1983.Baker wrote or edited seventeen books. Baker's first Pulitzer Prize was awarded to him for distinguished commentary for his Observer columns (1979) and the second one was for his autobiography, Growing Up (1982); he is one of only six people to have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both Arts & Letters (for his autobiography) and Journalism (for his column).
Synopsis
This Pulitzer Prize-winner is "the saddest, funniest, most tragical yet comical picture of coming of age in the U.S.A. in the Depresson years and World War II that has ever been written."Harrison Salisbury.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2020023414
- Title
- Growing Up
- Author
- Baker, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0312922671
- ISBN 13
- 9780312922672
- Publisher
- Congdon & Weed
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 16 oz
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