num_pages: 288
description: Russell Baker is the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Distinguished Commentary and a columnist for The New York Times. This book traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise. These were depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships made the man.
language: English
title: Growing Up
titlecomplete: Growing Up
genres: Coming Of Age, Biography, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Journalism, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 7217
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
publisher: Plume