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- George Pierce Baker was born on April 4, 1866 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. George Pierce was a writer, known for The Eve of the Revolution (1924). George Pierce was married to Christina Hopkinson. George Pierce died on January 6, 1935 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseChristina Hopkinson(1893 - 1935) (his death, 4 children)
- Kept a complete cardfile on all his former students and followed their careers.
- Taught dramatic writing at Harvard for 36 years and 8 at Yale.
- Some of the writers that had attended "Baker's Workshop" were Eugene O'Neill, 'Phillip Barry (VI)', Sidney Howard, Theresa Helburn, 'Kenneth MacGowan', Aurania Rouverol and Robert Edmond Jones.
- The list of writers that were his students would make up a virtual Who's Who in American Literature.
- Was called "The Father of Dramatic Writing in the United States" by a former president of Harvard University.
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