Brief reviews of three of Baker's books, How I Came West and Why I Stayed: Stories, Loving Wanda Beaver: Novella and Stories, and Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women. A good Website to view quick comments about Baker's works.

BIOGRAPHY
Alison Baker (b. 1953) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Reed College and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. She began her career as a medical librarian in 1978 at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. Ten years later she stopped working as a librarian to concentrate on her writing. After her short story, "Field Notes" won the George Garrett Fiction Award in 1992 she published her critically acclaimed collection How I Came West and Why I Stayed (1993). The story "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight" won the O. Henry Award and "The Heaven of Animals" was selected for The Best American Short Stories in 1993.