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Katharine Pontius Baker (October 4, 1876 – September 23, 1919) was an American short story writer, lawyer, and educator who served in the French Army as a nurse during World War I. Katharine Baker was born on October 4, 1876 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania , the daughter of US Representative J. Thompson Baker and Elizabeth Bordner Baker.
In 1992, when she was 25, Heiny's short story 'How to Give the Wrong Impression' was published in The New Yorker after having been rejected 30 times. To support herself, she became a ghostwriter of around 25 YA novels, including for the Sweet Valley High series (as Francine Pascal) and for the Making Out series (as Katherine Applegate), before stopping writing to raise her family.
Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American actress. Baker began her career in theater and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film The Right Stuff . She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in Street Smart (1987). [ 1 ]
Deadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder is a 2012 true crime book written by the non-fiction author and novelist Kathryn Casey and released by HarperCollins about the 2006 murder by Baptist minister Matt Baker of his 31-year-old wife, Kari Baker, and the staging of her death as a suicide.
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice is a 2009 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, and Kohl Sudduth.Based on the characters from the Jesse Stone book series created by Robert B. Parker, the film is about the police chief of a small New England town who investigates a cryptic letter sent to the mother of a kidnapped child who was ...
Her memoir, All The Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, was released in 2019 to mostly positive reviews. Bethanne Patrick, writing for TIME , said, "Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story is a high-wire act for many reasons, not least being how few readers will have read Woolf themselves.
Glenway Wescott of The New York Times Book Review ranked Porter with the upper echelon of American short fiction: “As it appears at present two of our top story writers stand head and shoulders above the rest, Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter…Miss Porter’s style is, so to speak, perfection…” [10]
Age 7 in America is a 1991 American documentary film produced by Michael Apted, co-produced by Vicky Bippart, directed by Phil Joanou, [1] and narrated by Meryl Streep. [2] It details the lives of 7-year-old Americans from across the continental United States , of varying social classes and ethnicities.