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
justice people age
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
literature trios novelists
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
wall journalism profit
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
believe media reason-why
There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.
hands feel-good causes
Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
america tradition easier
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
firsts half educator
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
moon men rocks
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
writing self-confidence arrogance
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.
happiness taken goal
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
birthday fashion love-you
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
new-beginnings opportunity people
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
couple home tree
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
writing people literature
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.