Deborah Baker’s books include Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding; A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. In Extremis was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 1994. The Convert was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Non-Fiction. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis C. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at The New York Public Library. Baker divides her time between Brooklyn and Goa.