Background
He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.
He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Foreign the hockey player, see Kevin Baker (hockey)
As a youth he worked on the Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and other civic affairs Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the following historical novels: Dreamland (1998). The bestselling Paradise Alley (2002).
And Strivers Row (2006).
Baker wrote a contemporary baseball novel called Sometimes You See it Coming (1993), and a graphic novel called Luna Park (2009). He was chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, The American Century.
In 2014, Baker"s historical novel The Big Crowd was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Baker resides in New York, where he is a contributing editor to Harper"s Magazine.
Baker appeared on Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network"s Washington Journal and The Colbert Report in 2009, to discuss the Obama presidency.
He graduated from Columbia University, where he majored in political science, in 1980. Scott Turow for The New York Times Book Review wrote: "Best of all, the novel delivers on what the title promises..I"ve read few other novels that portray, in such a nuanced way, the temptations of power, the complex division of control in a great metropolis and the perils of political deal-making."
He was formerly a columnist for "In the News" in American Heritage magazine, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review.