{"product_id":"growing-up-paperback-2","title":"Growing Up - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRussell Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A modern day classic filled with perfect turns of phrase and traces of quiet wisdom, \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming of age story that is \"the stuff of American legend\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Baker\u003c\/b\u003e charmed readers with his astute political commentary and biting cerebral wit. The noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer wrote or edited seventeen books, and was the author of the nationally syndicated \"Observer\" column for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e from 1962 to 1998. Called by Robert Sherrill of the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book Word\u003c\/i\u003e, \"the supreme satirist of this half-century,\" Baker was most famous for turning the daily gossip of most newspapers into the stuff of laugh-out-loud literature. John Skow of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e described Baker's work as \"funny, but full of the pain and absurdity of the age...he can write with a hunting strain of melancholy, with delight, or...with shame or outrage.\" Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1979, in recognition of his Observer column. Baker received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography, \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up\u003c\/i\u003e (1983). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to his regular column and numerous books, Baker also edited the anthologies, \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Book of Light Verse\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eRussell Baker's Book of American Humor\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). From 1993 to 2004 he was the regular host of the PBS television series \u003ci\u003eMasterpiece Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e. Baker was a regular contributor to national periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated, Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcCalls\u003c\/i\u003e. One of his columns, \"How to Hypnotize Yourself into Forgetting the Vietnam War,\" was dramatized and filmed by Eli Wallach for PBS. Baker died in 2019 at the age of 93.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1983\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Growing Up\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.9\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 15\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723960684607,"sku":"9780452255500","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/96462c4ce1844d2881f8d32f845c28cf.webp?v=1765100976","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/growing-up-paperback-2","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}