Richard M. Baker, Jr. (1924–1978)
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- Geburtstag
- 1924-02-13
- Todestag
- 1978
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Sterbeort
- Portland, Maine
- Wohnorte
- Cape Elizabeth, Maine. USA
- Ausbildung
- Bowdoin College
- Berufe
- accountant
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- Richard M. Baker, Jr. was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1924 and lived with his wife and five children in the suburbs of Portland, Maine until his death in 1978. After brief service in the Army Air Force in 1943, and graduation from Bowdoin College in 1946, he worked as a public accountant, and in 1957, gambled on a career as a writer.
A victim of severe multiple sclerosis, he devoted eleven years and two fingers to his Smith Corona typewriter, enlisted his wife and children when the progressively-debilitating disease warranted, and brought personal struggle, exhaustive research and powerful imagination to his writing.
Dick Baker grew up in a small, coastal Maine town, never strayed far from his roots, in turn rooted his family there, shared with them his love of the ocean and lakes, the changing seasons, sandlot baseball and the Boston Red Sox, batter-fried clams, and old and new friends.
A fine athlete and sportsman, accomplished jazz drummer, avid reader, and self-taught author, he was fully engaged and engaging throughout his 54 years. He accepted his disability with a sense of humor and purpose and passionate lack of self-pity exemplified by his belief that the one good thing to come of his diagnosis was the opportunity to write.
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High Rise Orange Groves is the author’s prophetic and technically farsighted view of millions of people engaged in interactive social networking -- in this case, to the detriment of the populace. In this speculative, dystopian fantasy novel - reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, Eugene Zamyatin’s WE, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 - Richard Baker envisions an unspecified future time when people are isolated by the authorities and ruled by inertia, ignorance, and an absence of love. Uniquely his, Baker wrote High Rise Orange Groves during the height of the Cold War when fear of atomic annihilation was compounded by the population explosion and the sexual revolution, and America was being spoiled by human and technological wastes.
Beyond this period of human-induced catastrophes, the imaginary majority of peoples in this new world order are uneducated “tans” and the minorities are black or white. The tans – loosely ruled by the “Authorities” -- live in high rise buildings, do not work, and occupy themselves with sex. One, a self-educated tan who, rather than go by a number names himself Richard, tries to establish contact with other tans via his “telecom”, part of the building-to-building, room-to-room, audio-video system.
In High Rise Orange Groves, Baker writes of a disturbingly bleak, future society. The impression imparted here is that it may be far more difficult for man to realize a meaningful social identity than to adapt to a mindless one. Available at:
http://www.web-e-books.com/hrog/index.html… (mehr)