Growing Up (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Baker
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: 1925–1981
- Setting: Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland
- Principal Characters: Russell Baker, Lucy Elizabeth Baker, Ida Rebecca Baker, Doris Baker, Herbert Orrison, Mimi Nash Baker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Memory, World War II, Depression, economic, Poverty or poor people, Humorists
- Locales: Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey
Form and Content
Russell Baker begins Growing Up in 1981 at the bedside of his mother. She has become feeble, her memory erratic, and Baker uses fragments of her memories as a starting point for placing his own memories into context. He ends the book at her bedside as well, and the visits to his mother bracket this memoir. The body of the book takes place during the years between Baker’s birth in 1925 and his marriage in 1950 and may be roughly divided into four sections.
The first section of Growing Up is set in Morrisonville, Virginia, Baker’s...
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