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Should this still be marked as a stub? It seems reasonably complete given Ms. Baker's stature and the amount of information publicly available about her. It's probably too early in her career to add a section about themes in her work, for instance. --
Jim Henry 21:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The mention of her agent smacks of advertising. Are there any other author articles where the author's agent gets a mention?
sources
I'm able to confirm Ms. Baker's year and place of birth (1952, Hollywood) as well as
place of residence (Pismo Beach) and venue of first publication (Asimov's 1997)
from the back jacket copy of a hardback edition of Black Projects, White Nights.
Does that count as a source?
64.142.37.23201:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Most if not all of the facts on the page could be sourced to the biography and bibliography sections of Ms Baker's home page. Why is that not a sufficient source for this kind of article? --
Jim Henry12:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Um...TEESOL?
"Teaching Elizabethan English as a Second Language"...Huh?
I might be able to scrounge something up from a convention program book bio. She gave a talk on Elizabethan English as a Second Language at Worldcon in 2004. --
Jim Henry12:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
That's OK. The hits from googling the phrase (in quotes) refer almost exclusively to Baker, so it appears to be her "thing".
While I can see teaching Elizabethan English to students majoring in the literature of the period, I can't see it having any relevance at all to my first-year agriculture and science/technology kids. --
SandChigger15:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Kage and Kate, as we knew them at Renaissance Pleasure Faire (Southern & Northern), taught "Elizabethan 101," an introduction to speaking the speech and learning in the time of Queen Elizabeth, for pre-Faire workshops for many years, under the auspices of the Living History Centre's College of the Performing Arts. Their self-published pamphlets were offered as primers. --
Pam Matthews, Albuquerque, NM-- —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
174.50.73.178 (
talk)
02:27, 14 January 2010 (UTC)reply
removing request for photo
A photo was added but the request for the a photo was never removed.
Her friends on Facebook report that Kage Baker passed away in the early hours of 31 January 2010. I'll refrain from updating the article since I don't have a citable source as yet. (Watch SFWA.org.) -
PKM (
talk)
17:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
The following email was sent to a news list that I am associated with. I cannot substantiate the information therefore I am not posting it on the article page.
MD (
talk)
21:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Forwarded message ----------
From: Wayne Fisher
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM
Subject: Important News
To: greenmanlistreply
At 1:15am January 31, 2010, at home in Pismo Beach, our own Kage Baker sailed with the tide surrounded by family. She had a very good Saturday full of laughter. The end came very quickly and quietly.
That's not enough information to make an encyclopedia article. Can you point us to some reliable sources that have more to say about the book? --
Stepheng3 (
talk)
12:34, 3 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Tribute to Jack Vance
Baker contributed to
Songs of the Dying Earth. Did she really write a 24-page Afterword while 21 other authors wrote two to five pages?
This implies Afterword by Baker (plus introduction of the next story) equal to the others in length, but the "shortstory" label of the next author's fiction does not fit. --
P64 (
talk)
19:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)reply