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Growing Up

First edition
Author	Russell Baker
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	Congdon & Weed
Publication date	1982
Publication place	United States
Pages	278 pp.
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
ISBN	0-86553-054-8
OCLC	8628636
LC Class	PS3552.A4343 Z466 1982

Growing Up is a 1982 memoir by author and journalist Russell Baker. An autobiography chronicling Baker's youth in Virginia and his mother's strength of character during the Great Depression, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1983.

References

• Andrea Chambers, Those Funnybones Grew from a Depression-Era Virginia Boyhood, People, December 20, 1982
• New York State Writers Institute
• Richard Lingeman, Suspiciously like Real Life, The New York Times, October 17, 1982

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