Larry Baker's Books
Apr.16.2012
Love and Other Delusions
In Alice’s world, it all made sense. She told her husband, “I stopped cheating on you when I started sleeping with Danny.” He finally understood, but too late.
Alice Marcher is dying, but she is still trying to understand her life. She was thirty when she met Danny Shay. He was eighteen. Two years later, they were sleeping together. Twenty years...
Sep.24.2009
A Good ManSynopsis
Harry Ducharme is at the end of his rope. Booze and bad decisions have taken him from the A-list of talk-radio fame down to a tiny cinder-block station, WWHD in St. Augustine, Florida. He talks mostly to himself from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., not sure anybody is listening, reading books and poetry that he likes, not caring if anyone agrees with him, playing golden-...
Mar.01.2005
Athens, Iowa, is the best of small college towns: affluent, cultured, tolerant, safe, and insulated from a world that seems to lack all those advantages. But at the beginning of a long dry summer, Athens sheds its communal innocence as two teenagers are killed in a police chase gone bad. Death becomes a political issue, and Athens becomes a microcosm of everything...
Aug.26.1997
"My name is Abraham Isaac Lee, and I am my father's son. This is a story about Land and Love and a Great Fire that consumed my father's dreams."
So begins the tale of Abraham Isaac Lee, the adopted Korean son of Hubert Lee and Edna Scott, who looks back at his childhood in the 1950s and '60s in Jacksonville, Florida. Hubert Lee, a deeply eccentric southerner, settles...
About Larry
Larry Baker’s wife would insist that the use of “career” in conjunction with his life is a bit misleading. Admitting that, however, Larry would still insist that he has done a few things in his life that might constitute real work.
He is currently an adjunct...
Causes Larry Baker Supports
Holt International Adoption Services
Harry Chapin Foundation
National Public Radio