Deborah Baker’s books have been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the National Book Award in narrative non-fiction. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Narrative Non-fiction award and has been a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her book Charlottesville: An American Story, about the Unite the Right rally that took place there in 2017, was published in the summer of 2025. She lives in Brooklyn and Charlottesville.

Top Titles

• The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2013)
• The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire (2018)
• Charlottesville: An American Story (2025)