Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker
BornCharlottesville
Alma materUniversity of Virginia,
Cambridge University
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship,
Whiting Award
SpouseAmitav Ghosh

Deborah Baker is an American biographer and essayist.

She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India and of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1994. She also writes for the Los Angeles Times. Her book The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011) is a biography of Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus), a Jewish woman from New York who converted to Islam. In 2012, she wrote a critical review for The Wall Street Journal of Defender of the Realm, the Manchester-Reid biography of Winston Churchill.

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