Leonard Baker

Leonard S. Baker was an American writer.
He won the 1979 [Pulitzer Prize|1979] Pulitzer [Prize for Biography or Autobiography] for Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, a book about Leo Baeck.
His other published works include The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency, ''Back to Back: The Duel Between FDR and the Supreme Court, John Marshall: A Life in Law, Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography, Brahmin in Revolt, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, and The Guaranteed Society.
A 1952 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's University of Pittsburgh [School of Arts and Sciences|School of Arts and Sciences], Baker was a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1955 to 1956 and for Newsday from 1956 to 1965. He was married to Liva Baker, author of The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes'' and other books, and had two children, David Baker and Sara Baker.