Columnist, author and "Masterpiece Theatre" host Russell Baker has died at age 93, according to The New York Times.
The Times said Baker died on Monday at his home in Leesburg, Virginia. Baker's son, Allen, told the Times that the cause was complications from a fall.
Baker was known for his satire and humor.
His "Observer" column ran in the New York Times -- and hundreds of other newspapers -- for 36 years, the Times said. The column earned Baker a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1979.
He won a second Pulitzer Prize, this time for biography, for "Growing Up," a 1982 memoir about his childhood during the Depression. It is one of 15 books Baker authored over the course of his life.
Baker also was a member and served as chairman of the Columbia University Pulitzer Prize board.
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Russell Baker, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose whimsical, irreverent “Observer” column appeared in The New York Times and hundreds of other newspapers for 36 years and turned a backwoods-born Virginian into one of America’s most celebrated writers, died on Monday at his home in Leesburg, Va. He was 93.
The cause was complications of a fall, his son Allen said.
Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, and writer of satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."
From Russell Baker's birthday (8/14/18) to the day of his death (1/22/19) is a span of 5 months and 8 days, like 58; Freemasonry = 58
It is also a span of 23 weeks.
23 weeks is quivalent to 22 weeks and 7 days, like 227
twenty two divided by seven equals 3.14 ~, Pi, the number for seasons, cycles, circles etc.
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