Katharine Baker

**Katharine Pontius Baker** (Oktoba 4, 1876 - Satumba 23, 1919) marubuciya ce ta ɗan gajeren labari ta Amurka, lauya, kuma malami wacce ta yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Faransa a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I.

An haifi Katharine Baker a ranar 4 ga Oktoba, 1876 a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 'yar wakilin Amurka J. Thompson Baker da Elizabeth Bordner Baker . Ta halarci Cibiyar Mata ta Bucknell da Kwalejin Goucher, ta kammala karatu daga ƙarshen a shekara ta 1896. Ta karanta doka tare da mahaifinta kuma ta wuce kotun a cikin 1900. A cikin 1904, iyalinta sun koma Wildwood, New Jersey, inda mahaifinta ya zama wanda ya kafa gari kuma magajin gari na farko. A Wildwood, Baker malamin makaranta ne, ya gabatar da Hanyar Montessori, kuma ya zama mace ta farko da aka zaba don aiki a kwamitin makaranta na Cape May County, New Jersey a shekarar 1912.  

Baker ya rubuta wasu gajerun labaru ga mujallu na Amurka a cikin 1910s. Labarin ta "Entertaining the Candidate," wanda ya danganta da ziyarar da Woodrow Wilson ya kai ga iyalinta, ya bayyana a cikin Atlantic Monthly a watan Fabrairun 1913 kuma an sake buga shi a cikin littafin Atlantic Classics . Sauran labarun sun shafi rayuwa a New Jersey, kamar "The Rover" a cikin McClure's Magazine a watan Fabrairun 1911. Labarinta na karshe, "Ku yi farin ciki da Ranar," ya dogara ne akan abubuwan da ta samu a yakin duniya na farko kuma ya bayyana a cikin Scribner's Magazine a watan Afrilun 1919. [1][2]

A shekara ta 1917, Katharine Baker ta tafi Faransa don aiki a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya a lokacin yakin duniya na farko. Ta shiga cikin Sojojin Faransa a matsayin corporal kuma ta shiga rundunar soja ta 137. Bayan ta yi aiki a asibitoci a gaba, an kwantar da ita a asibiti tare da pleurisy da cutar huhu. Bayan an sake ta, maimakon ta dauki hutu mai tsawo, nan da nan ta koma gaba, tana aiki ga Red Cross na Amurka a Bruyères. Rashin lafiyarta ya lalace saboda abubuwan da ta samu a yaƙi, ta koma Amurka a 1919. Don aikinta, an ba ta lambar yabo ta Croix de Guerre bayan mutuwarta.

Katharine Baker ta mutu a ranar 23 ga Satumba 1919 a Saranac Lake, New York . 

## Bayanan littattafai

* Yarima mai tsauri, Littafin Scrap Satumba 1907
* Rover, McClure's Magazine Janairu 1911
* Lizzie da Ƙaunarta, The Cavalier Maris 16 1912
* Kwarewar Dukiya, The Hampton Magazine Afrilu 1912
* The Alienist, The Cavalier Mayu 25 1912
* Al'adu da Kwamishinan, Collier's Agusta 17 1912
* The Peanut Kid, *Harper's Weekly* Fabrairu 1 1913
* Yin nishaɗi da Dan takarar, The Atlantic Monthly Fabrairu 1913
* Amanda, *Harper's Weekly* 12 Yuli 1913
* Gidan Iblis, Collier's Yuli 19 1913
* Don Halin da ya dace, The Forum Janairu 1914
* Henrietta mai takaici, *All-Story Cavalier Weekly* Yuli 25 1914
* Uwargidan Wutar, *Ainslee na* Satumba 1914
* Wakilin Talla, Ainslee's Afrilu 1915
* Cinderella ta Hanyar Rubicon, *Ainslee na* Oktoba 1915
* A Permanent Fixture, *Ainslee na* Nuwamba 1916
* Ɗa, *Ayyuka Bakwai* Nuwamba 1916
* Gida ga Tatiana, Scribner's Magazine Disamba 1916
* Mutumin Tsuntsu da Kifi Daga Ruwa, Maris na Ainslee 1917
* The Fifty-Cent Kind, The Atlantic Monthly Afrilu 1917
* Gidan Melisande, *Mujallar Scribner* Janairu 1919
* Jin daɗin Ranar, *Mujallar Scribner* Afrilu 1919

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