Russell Baker | Biography, Notable Works & Pulitzer Prize | Britannica

Russell Baker (born August 14, 1925, Loudoun county, Virginia, U.S.—died January 21, 2019, Leesburg, Virginia) was an American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters. When Baker was five years old, his father died. From that time on, he and his mother and one of his sisters moved frequently, living in Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1947, Baker worked as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun (1947–54). He also wrote a lively weekly column, “From a Window on Fleet Street.” At the Washington bureau of The New York Times (1954–62), he covered the White House, the State Department, and the Congress. In the early 1960s he began writing “The Observer” on the paper’s editorial page. In this syndicated humour column he initially concentrated on political satire, writing about the administrations of U.S. Presiden

Russell Baker (born August 14, 1925, Loudoun county, Virginia, U.S.—died January 21, 2019, Leesburg, Virginia) was an American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters. When Baker was five years old, his father died. From that time on, he and his mother and one of his sisters moved frequently, living in Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1947, Baker worked as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun (1947–54). He also w