Russell Baker Quotes


What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.


Citations

Baker, Russell. "Observer." The New York Times, May 1977.

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  • Born: August 14, 1925
  • Died: January 21, 2019
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Writer, Narrator

Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."