A modern day classic filled with perfect turns of phrase and traces of quiet wisdom, Growing Up is a coming of age story that is 'the stuff of American legend' (The Washington Post Book World). Here, too, are schoolyard bullies, great teachers, and the everyday heroes and heroines of the Depression who faced disaster with good cheer as they tried to muddle through. We meet the people who influenced Baker's early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons. His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. He joined the Navy in 1943 and received pilot training. 'Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny…a work of original biographical art.'-The New York Times In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. Russell Wayne Baker was born in Loudoun County, Virginia on August 14, 1925. Russell Baker’s memoir Growing Up emphasizes his early years, especially the challenges of life during the Great Depression, and takes him up to his marriage. Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. Finalist, National Book Awards 1983 for Autobiography/Biography - Hardcover. a work of original, biographical art'.-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times. Russell Bakers memoir describes his childhood in rural Virginia, his youth growing up in the Great Depression, and his young adulthood in Baltimore with. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book store and download or stream it right to. It is the story of adversity and courage, of the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. Download or stream Growing Up by Russell Baker. This Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography is Russell Baker's unforgettable story of growing up in America between the world wars.