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 is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the historical novels, Dreamland, the bestselling Paradise Alley and Strivers Row. He has also written a contemporary baseball novel called, Sometimes You See it Coming, and was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, The American Century.

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.

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External links

• Baker's website