Background
Deborah Baker was born on March 28, 1959 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. She is a daughter of Jeffrey John Wheeler and Barbara Ann Baker.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
In 1980, Deborah studied at the University of Cambridge.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
In 1981, Baker attained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.
MS 3E4, 4400 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
Deborah, reading at Fall for the Book, Fairfax Virginia.
(This work represents a literary exploration of the Beats'...)
This work represents a literary exploration of the Beats' encounter with India in the 1960's, a journey, that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Hand-Beats-India/dp/B001JJBOCE
2008
Deborah Baker was born on March 28, 1959 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. She is a daughter of Jeffrey John Wheeler and Barbara Ann Baker.
In 1980, Deborah studied at the University of Cambridge. The following year, in 1981, she attained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.
Deborah began writing when she was a student. Her first biography, written in college, was "Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly", published by Beacon Press in 1982. After working a number of years as a book editor and publisher, in 1990, she moved to present-day Kolkata, where she wrote "In Extremis; The Life of Laura Riding". Her third book, "A Blue Hand: The Beats in India", was published by Penguin Press USA and Penguin India in 2008.
During the period from 2008 till 2009, Deborah was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. It was there, that she researched and wrote "The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism", a narrative account of the life of an American convert to Islam.
In 2012, Baker wrote a critical review for the Wall Street Journal of "Defender of the Realm", the Manchester-Reid biography of Winston Churchill. In August 2018, the author published her fifth work of non-fiction, "The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire".
Currently, except for her work as an author, she also writes for the Los Angeles Times daily newspaper. Deborah divides her time between Brooklyn, Kolkata and Goa.
(This work represents a literary exploration of the Beats'...)
2008Quotes from others about the person
"Deborah Baker combines a novelistic alertness to the inner life with an anthropologist's understanding of multiple cultures and a historian's eye for major events. The result, yet again, is a continuously absorbing and stimulating book, which enlarges the cultural and political history of the mid-20th century even as it grippingly relates the adventures of a few men and women." — Pankaj Mishra, an Indian essayist and novelist
Deborah married Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, on February 15, 1990. Their marriage produced two children — Lila and Nayan.