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Anas Alyamani
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Russell Baker (1925) was born in a
rural town in Virginia and grew up
in New Jersey and Maryland.
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Russell Baker received his B.A. in
English from Johns Hopkins
University in 1947.
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Russell Baker worked as a reporter
for The Baltimore Sun and then
The New York Times.
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He's style is generally casual but
thoughtful.
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In 1979 he received the Pulitzer
Prize for distinguished
commentary and autobiography
Growing Up in 1982.
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This article first published in his
New York Times column in 1980.
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Also, This article is entertaining
satire of the prose style of much
scholarly writing.
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He translated this article into
modern American language so he
is making fun of this language.
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