Education
Princeton University. University of Iowa; Northwestern University.
Princeton University. University of Iowa; Northwestern University.
Baber went on to Princeton University where he joined the United States Marine Corps Platoon Leader Corps. His military experience became material for several essays and, finally, his first book, Land of a Million Elephants, published in 1971, and serialized in Playboy. Baber performed his graduate work at Northwestern University and the University of Iowa"s Writer"s Workshop.
From 1969 through 1975 Baber was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii.
He was so beloved that, when the Chicago Sun-Times published an article about him in 2002 (focusing largely on his failing health), dozens of former students wrote to him to re-establish contact and offer support. In 1982, Baber wrote an essay called, "Who Gets Screwed In A Divorce? I Do!" which was published in Playboy.
The essay was so popular that Baber joined with longtime Playboy editor Arthur Ketchmer to develop a column called "Men", that became a celebrated cornerstone of Men"s liberation. Quickly becoming one of the magazine"s most popular features, the unapologetic and politically incorrect column covered a broad spectrum of subjects including sports, sexuality, divorce, male-bashing, employment, personal identity, fatherhood, and personal values.
I am here to urge you to be a little more brave, a tad more courageous and self-controlled, and to take some private time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe and ask yourself how you plan to spend whatever time you have left.
