Kevin Baker (author)

Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist and journalist.

He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts. As a youth he worked on the local newspaper Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as town meetings and other civic affairs. He graduated from Columbia University in 1980, with a major in political science.

Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the following historical novels: Dreamland (1998); the bestselling Paradise Alley (2002); and Strivers Row (2006). The middle volume of the trilogy won the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction and the 2003 American Book Award.Paradise Alley was also chosen by bestselling Angela's Ashes author, Frank McCourt, as a Today show book club selection.

Baker's first book, Sometimes You See it Coming (1993), was a contemporary baseball novel loosely based on the life of Ty Cobb. He also wrote a graphic novel, Luna Park (2009), with drawings by Croatian artist Danijel Žeželj.

He was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’s illustrated history of the United States, The American Century (1998). He was a columnist ("In the News") for American Heritage magazine from 1998 to 2007. In 2009 appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and The Colbert Report, to discuss the Obama presidency.

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