Howard Baker (born Howard Wilson Baker, Jr.) (April 5, 1905 â€" July
1990) was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic.Baker was
born in Philadelphia. While pursuing graduate studies in English at
Stanford University, he befriended Yvor Winters, and was co-editor of
the literary magazine Gyroscope. After earning his master's degree, he
moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. While there, he married the
novelist Dorothy Baker, and met and was influenced by Ernest Hemingway
and Ford Madox Ford, who helped him to publish his first work, the
autobiographical novel Orange Valley (1931).After returning to the
United States in 1931, he took a position teaching English at
Berkeley. From 1937 to 1943, he then taught English at Harvard.In
addition to collaborating with his wife, Baker produced poetry
collections of his own, including Letter from the Country (1941) and
Ode to the Sea (1954), as well as a collection of essays on ancient
Greek culture, Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early
Greeks (1979).
1990) was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic.Baker was
born in Philadelphia. While pursuing graduate studies in English at
Stanford University, he befriended Yvor Winters, and was co-editor of
the literary magazine Gyroscope. After earning his master's degree, he
moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. While there, he married the
novelist Dorothy Baker, and met and was influenced by Ernest Hemingway
and Ford Madox Ford, who helped him to publish his first work, the
autobiographical novel Orange Valley (1931).After returning to the
United States in 1931, he took a position teaching English at
Berkeley. From 1937 to 1943, he then taught English at Harvard.In
addition to collaborating with his wife, Baker produced poetry
collections of his own, including Letter from the Country (1941) and
Ode to the Sea (1954), as well as a collection of essays on ancient
Greek culture, Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early
Greeks (1979).
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