Background
Baker, Stephen J. was born on September 25, 1955 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, United States.
Baker, Stephen J. was born on September 25, 1955 in Havre de Grace, Maryland, United States.
He attended Harriton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in Spanish and History. He attended the University of Madrid in Spain during his junior year.
He wrote for BusinessWeek for 23 years from the United States, Europe and Latin America. His first non-fiction book, The Numerati, published in 2008, discussed the rise of the data economy. Themes concerning data have marked much of his subsequent work, including his futuristic novel, The Boost.
He later received a Masters degree in from Columbia University in New New York
Baker began his professional career at the Black River Tribune, a weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont. After working in Venezuela and Ecuador, he spent a year at the El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post.
A year later he was BusinessWeek"s bureau chief in Mexico City. From Mexico he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he covered industry for six years, and then to Paris, France, where he covered European technology.
Baker has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe.
They have three adult sons, Jack, Aidan and Henry.
Member: Cecil County (Secretary, 1982-1987) and Maryland State (Young Lawyers Circuit Representative, 1982-1991. Membership Committee, 1988) Bar Associations.