Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Bakeris an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth14 August 1925
CityMorrisonville, VA
CountryUnited States of America
book usa moral
Americans like fat books and thin women.
children growing-up parenting
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
summer nature suffering
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
writing play roles
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
life seize-the-day helping
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
two problem solve
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
inspirational funny travel
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
real work writing
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
education learned-person information
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
history progress done
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.