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Kevin Baker


USA flag (b.1958)

Kevin Baker is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.

As a youth Baker worked on the Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia, where he majored in political science, in 1980. Baker resides in New York, where he is a contributing editor to Harper's magazine as well as a columnist with American Heritage magazine, and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review.
 

Genres: Historical
 
Series
City of Fire Trilogy
   1. Paradise Alley (2002)
   2. Dreamland (1999)
   3. Strivers Row (2006)
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The Trouble with You (2024)
Ellen Feldman
"Feldman is at the top of her game in The Trouble with You. She displays a perfect grasp of the postwar era, its politics, her characters, and the human heart. It is a masterful performance-and a great read."
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Unseen City (2020)
Amy Shearn
"Atmospheric, poignant, well-observed, and sneakily funny, Amy Shearn's Unseen City is one from the heart, an absorbing read for all those who love Brooklyn, great writing, and the human spirit."
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Carter Beats the Devil (2001)
Glen David Gold
"Carter Beats the Devil is an absorbing mystery, full of magic, romance, and history and populated with fascinating characters, both real and imagined, from the great Houdini, to a doomed President Harding, to the villainous Mysterioso. Glen David Gold is a first-rate storyteller, with his own hoard of magician's tricks."

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Anthologies containing stories by Kevin Baker
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Bronx Noir (2007)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
S J Rozan

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