For three years, Baker sells the Saturday Evening Post but shows no aptitude for sales. His mother suggests this career option after he brings home a composition on which he received an A. A modern day classic filled with perfect turns of phrase and traces of quiet wisdom, Growing Up is a coming of age story that is "the stuff of American legend" ( The Washington Post Book World ). Growing Up Key Figures Russell Baker Baker first decides he wants to become a writer at the age of eleven.
Here, too, are schoolyard bullies, great teachers, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer as they tried to muddle through. We meet the people who influenced Baker's early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. Baker’s memoir, published in 1982, would go on to. His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. Russell Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist, died on Monday night at his home in Leesburg, Va. "Magical.He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny.a work of original biographical art."- The New York Times In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. remarkable memoir recounts Russell Bakers experience of growing up in preWorld War II America, before he went on to a celebrated career in journalism.
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