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Growing Up

Growing Up Mass market paperback - 1984

by Baker, Russell

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  • near fine
  • Paperback

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  • Title Growing Up
  • Author Baker, Russell
  • Binding Mass Market paperback
  • Edition later printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book / New American Library, New York, NY, USA
  • Date 1984
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 503352
  • ISBN 9780451168382 / 0451168380
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1030
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Journalists - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

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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At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall, and after that her mind wandered free through time.

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About the author

Russell Baker charmed readers with his astute political commentary and biting cerebral wit. The noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer wrote or edited seventeen books, and was the author of the nationally syndicated "Observer" column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. Called by Robert Sherrill of the Washington Post Book Word, "the supreme satirist of this half-century," Baker was most famous for turning the daily gossip of most newspapers into the stuff of laugh-out-loud literature. John Skow of Time described Baker's work as "funny, but full of the pain and absurdity of the age...he can write with a hunting strain of melancholy, with delight, or...with shame or outrage." Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1979, in recognition of his "Observer" column. Baker received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography, Growing Up (1983).

In addition to his regular column and numerous books, Baker also edited the anthologies, The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993). From 1993 to 2004 he was the regular host of the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre. Baker was a regular contributor to national periodicals such as The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Saturday Evening Post, and McCalls. One of his columns, "How to Hypnotize Yourself into Forgetting the Vietnam War," was dramatized and filmed by Eli Wallach for PBS. Baker died in 2019 at the age of 93.

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