Kevin
Baker was born in August 1958, in Englewood, New Jersey and
grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, a small town on the North
Shore. He graduated from Columbia University in New York City
in 1980, and since then has earned his living as a writer and
editor.
His
first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming, based loosely
on the life of Ty Cobb, but set in the modern day, was published
in hardcover by Crown in 1993 and in paperback by HarperPaperbacks
in the spring of 2003. Dreamland, part of Baker’s
New York‚ City of Fire trilogy was published by HarperCollins
in 1999, and in paperback the following year. Paradise Alley
was published by HarperCollins in 2002, and the third and final
volume of the trilogy, Strivers Row, which was published in February, 2006. Kevin was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans’
best–selling history, The American Century,published
by Knopf in 1999. He currently writes the monthly “In the
News” column for American Heritagemagazine, and has
been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Frankfurter
Rundschau, Harper’s magazine, Talk, and
The Industry Standard, among other publications.
He
is married and lives in New York City.
