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Baker was born on August 14, , in Loudoun County. His father, Benjamin, was a stonemason who died in a diabetic coma when Baker was five, leaving the family in poverty. Baker and his mother, Lucy Baker, moved to New Jersey to live with her brother. They were forced to live on the generosity of relatives until his mother remarried when Baker was a teenager.

Always an excellent student, Baker won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, but he left after one year to join the U. Navy Air Force in World War II — ended before he saw combat, so Baker returned to Johns Hopkins, graduated in , and began a career as a journalist with the Baltimore Sun. In , he returned to the United States and became the Washington, D.

The column appeared three times a week for more than three decades, making it one of the longest-running columns ever.

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They had three children. She died in In , Baker returned to Virginia and settled in Leesburg. Baker produced a variety of other writing while he worked for the Times. He was also a noted book reviewer and literary critic. Encyclopedia Virginia Grady Ave. Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation , the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.