# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:10:16.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-baker"
name: "Russell Baker"
slug: "russell-baker"
description: "Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: \"Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution.\""
tagline: "American writer and satirist (1925-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Russell_Baker.png/330px-Russell_Baker.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1925-08-14"
deathDate: "2019-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0048897"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump