Russell Baker
(b. 1925)

Russell Baker grew up in Virginia and New Jersey. When he was in the seventh grade, he decided to become a writer, since "making up stories must surely be almost as much fun as reading them." As it turned out, he became a reporter rather than a fiction writer. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University and serving in the United States Naval Reserve, he began to pursue his career in writing.

He has won the Pulitzer Prize both for his newspaper column Observer (in 1979) and for Growing Up, a book about his life (in 1983). Baker began his career in journalism at the Baltimore Sun and then The New York Times. Along with his writing career, in 1993 he went on to host the PBS television series "Masterpiece Theatre."

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