Few scholars in the humanities could match the breadth and depth of Carlos Baker's learning. His research spanned more than 200 years of literature, and his subjects ranged from Ernest Hemingway and W.B. Yeats to Ralph Waldo Emerson. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, Mr. Baker earned his doctorate in literature from Princeton University in 1940. He would teach there for the next forty years, chairing the English Department for two terms and guest lecturing at colleges and universities around the world. He was the recipient of both Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships. A prolific writer, Mr. Baker was the author of several novels, a collection of short stories, three poetry collections, and a number of critical literary studies. But Mr. Baker's international reputation rests on his biographical studies of Hemingway; both his 1952 title, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, and his seminal 1969 biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, have been translated into several foreign languages.

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