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Jo Baker (September 6, 1948 – November 11, 1996) [1] [2] was an American vocalist and songwriter, known primarily for her work with Elvin Bishop and Stoneground. History [ edit ]
Jo Baker (singer) (1948–1996), American vocalist and songwriter This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 23:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Baker, c. 1908 Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri. [11] [14] [15] Baker's ancestry is unknown—her mother, Carrie, was adopted in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1886 by Richard and Elvira McDonald, both of whom were former slaves of African and Native American descent. [11]
Longbourn is a 2013 novel by the British author Jo Baker. It gives an alternative view of the events in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, telling the story from the perspective of the servants at Longbourn, the Bennet family home. It was published by Doubleday in the UK and by Knopf in the US.
Baker was born and grew up in the village of Arkholme, in Lancashire, England. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale , and Somerville College, Oxford . She moved to Belfast in 1995 to study for an MA in Irish literature at Queen's University, [ 1 ] where she went on to complete a PhD on the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth ...
Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was an American-born French entertainer and activist. Josephine Baker may also refer to: Sara Josephine Baker, (1873–1945), American physician; Josephine Baker (1854–1918), American actress and wife of John Drew Jr.
In 1967, Baker was cast as a travelling magician, Dr. William Davis, in the episode "The Saga of Dr. Davis" on the syndicated series Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor. [3] Judi Meredith played his wife, Jenny, whose death leads him to take an adopted son, Tad, on his remaining westward journeys.
Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American retired actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. [1] He established himself as an action star with supporting roles the Westerns in Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973).