Carlos Baker (May 5, 1909 – April 18, 1987) was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A. , M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton respectively. Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary criticisms and essays. In 1969 he published a highly-acclaimed scholarly biography of Ernest Hemingway. His other major works included a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... MA or ma may stand for: ma, a two-letter English word meaning Mother Ma, transliteration of Chinese family name 馬,马,麻 etc. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. ...
CarlosBaker (1909-1987), educator, editor, poet, and author, was born in Maine, but resided in Princeton, New Jersey, since 1937.
Baker remained at Princeton as a professor of English, 1938-1953, and then as Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature from 1953 to his retirement in 1977.
Baker's works include the first full-length critical interpretation of Ernest Hemingway's works, Hemingway: the Writer as Artist (1952), and the authorized biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969), which was acclaimed for its thoroughness and non-judgmental presentation of the facts of Hemingway's life and exploits.
In the course of a long career CarlosBaker produced a considerable body of scholarship on the Romantic poets and on a variety of American authors, and wrote novels and poetry: but he is most widely remembered as the official biographer of Ernest Hemingway.
Baker's major works on Hemingway are his 1952 study of Hemingway's fiction, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist; his 1969 biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story; and his 1981 volume of Hemingway's correspondence, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961.
Carlos Heard Baker was born on 5 May1909 in Biddeford, Maine, to Arthur E. and Edna Heard Baker.
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