Background
Baker was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and currently lives near Wolverhampton. He learned golf at his father"s nine-hole Himley Hall course and was taught by Sandy Lyle"s father Alex.
Baker was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and currently lives near Wolverhampton. He learned golf at his father"s nine-hole Himley Hall course and was taught by Sandy Lyle"s father Alex.
Graduated from the high school, Wolverhampton, England.
He is responsible for covering President Barack Obama and the Obama administration. Prior to joining The New York Times in 2008, Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post, where he also covered the White House during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George West. Bush. During his first tour at the White House, Baker co-authored the paper"s first story about the Lewinsky scandal and served as the paper"s lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle.
During his next White House assignment, he covered the travails of Bush"s second term, from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina to Supreme Court nomination fights and the economy.
Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was the first American newspaper journalist to report from rebel-held northern Afghanistan after September
11, 2001, and he spent the next eight months covering the overthrow of the Taliban and the emergence of a new government. He later spent six months in the Middle East, reporting from inside Saddam Hussein"s Iraq and around the region before embedding with the United States. Marines as they drove toward Baghdad.
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin"s Russia and the End of Revolution was named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The Washington Post Book World.
Baker is a regular panelist on Public Broadcasting Service"s Washington Week and a frequent guest on other television and radio programs. A native of the Washington, District of Columbia area, Baker attended Oberlin College, where he worked as a reporter for the student newspaper, The Oberlin Review. After graduating, he worked for The Washington Times for two years before joining the Post in 1988 as a reporter covering Virginia news.
In October 2013, Baker published Days Of Fire, which was listed as one of the top ten books of 2013 by The New York Times.
Married Helen Yardley, October 6, 1990. Children: Georgina, Grace.