Peter Baida

Peter Baida (July 26, 1950 – December 14, 1999) was an American short story writer.[1]

Life

Baida was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Park School of Baltimore. He graduated from Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude, English, 1972), Boston University (M.A., 1973, creative writing), and the University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. in 1979.[2]

He was the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's director of direct mail fundraising from 1984 through 1999.[2]

His work appeared in The Missouri Review,[3]

A writer-in-residence fellowship is named for him at the Park School of Baltimore.[4]

Awards

Works

Short stories
  • A nurse's story, and others. University Press of Mississippi. 2001. ISBN 978-1-57806-318-5.

Non-fiction

Anthologies

Essays
gollark: Also, I can't really visualize much more than simple coloured shapes, and can't visualize past memories as others apparently can.
gollark: I also seem to suffer the lack of autobiographical memory thing, in that I have real trouble remembering past events but am fine with random facts.
gollark: I don't think any system which converts the simple, easy alignment square into an alignment cube or tesseract will be popular.
gollark: I don't really have a problem with liking it, more randomly bringing up bits of it with no context or real purpose.
gollark: You are very obsessed with that... TV show or whatever.

References
  1. "Paid Notice: Deaths BAIDA, PETER". The New York Times. December 14, 1999. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  2. Lyons, Sheridan (December 12, 1999). "Peter Baida, 49, won literary prize this year". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. TMR: A Doctor's Story Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine. Missourireview.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-08.
  4. Academics · The Park School of Baltimore. Parkschool.net. Retrieved on 2012-08-08.
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