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1909年5月5日～
1987年4月18日)
美国传记作家，新泽西州普林斯顿大学的文学教授和法学博士。他是第一个全面研究海明威及其著作的权威人士。一九五二年，他写了一本关于海明威的书《象艺术家那样进行创作的人》。卡罗斯贝克自一九六一年至一九六八年，整整花了八年时间才写完《海明威传》。作者进行了广泛、深入调查，获取第一手资料，并充分利用书信、回忆材料、传记文献和文学研究及评论，叙述了海明威的生平和创作。在叙述作家的生平和创作的同时，作者还介绍了海明威的家人、朋友以及同他有过交往的人；介绍了海明威的主要作品产生的时代背景，写作过程以及当时社会对这些作品的反应。本书材料丰富而翔实，描述别开生面，饶有情趣。它不仅能帮助一般读者了解海明威的生活经历和创作上的成功经验，对于深入探讨和研究海明威其人以及他的创作思想和艺术也有一定的参考价值。
Carlos Baker (May 5, 1909, Biddeford, Maine – April 18, 1987, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American writer, biographer and former Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton respectively. Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary criticisms and essays. In 1969 he published a highly-acclaimed scholarly biography of Ernest Hemingway. His other major works included a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Baker taught biographer A. Scott Berg while Berg was an undergraduate at Princeton in the late 1960s. Berg recalled that Baker "changed my life," and convinced him to quit acting to concentrate on his thesis, a study of editor Maxwell Perkins. Berg eventually expanded his thesis into the National Book Award-winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which he dedicated in part to Baker.