Baker, Dorothy

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 437 words | Copyright

Baker, Dorothy (1907–68), Montana‐born novelist, attended Whittier College, and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her novels are Young Man with a Horn (1938), inspired by the music of Bix Beiderbecke; Trio (1943), dramatized (1944) with her husband Howard Baker, novelist and poet; Our Gifted Son (1948); and Cassandra at the Wedding (1962),a psychological study of two sisters and their family.

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