Background
Ethnicity:
Her father was a Metis-Iroquois, while her mother was an American of Scot and Welsh descent.
Kage Baker was born on June 10, 1952, in Hollywood, California, United States, to a very large family. She was a daughter of George Baker and Katherine (Hurt) Carmichael Baker. Her father was a disabled veteran of World War II, while her mother was a landscape painter, and later a stand-in stunt double for films. Her maternal grandmother completed work for a doctorate in literature at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill, but was denied the degree because professors felt women ought not to have them. This rankled and was probably the reason Kage, as her oldest surviving granddaughter, was continually told she must be a writer some day.
