BAKER, William

BAKER, William. American (born England), b. 1944. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: City Literary Institute, London, England, lecturer in English, 1967-71; Thurrock Technical College, lecturer, 1969-71; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel, lecturer, 1971-77; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturer, 1973-75; University of Kent at Canterbury, England, lecturer, 1977-78; West Midlands College of Higher Education, senior lecturer, 197885; Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, visiting professor, 1981-82; Clifton College, Bristol, England, housemaster, 1986-89; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, associate professor, 1989-94, professor of English and library studies, 1994-. NEH Senior Fellowship, 2002-03. Publications: (with others) Harold Pinter, 1973; Critics on George Eliot, 1973; George Eliot and Judaism, 1975; Some George Eliot Notebooks, 4 vols., 1976-85; The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library, 1977; The Libraries of George Eliot and G.H. Lewes, 1981; Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, 1985; Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, 1985, rev. ed., 1991; (with J. Kimber and M.B. Kinch) F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989; The Early History of the London Library, 1992; (with K. Womack) Recent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995: An Annotated Bibliography, 1996; Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism, 2000; Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction, 2002; (with J.C. Ross) George Eliot: A Bibliographical History, 2002. EDITOR: The Letters of George Henry Lewes, 3 vols., 1995, 1999; (with J.H. Alexander) Sir Walter Scott: Tales of a Grandfather; The History of France, 2nd Series, 1996; (with J. Wolfreys) Literary Theories, 1996; (assoc.) New Dictionary of National Biography, 1996-; (with K. Womack) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 184: 19th-Century British Bibliographers and Book Collectors, 1997, Vol. 201: 20th-Century British Bibliographers and Book Collectors, 1999, Vol. 213: Pre19th Century British Bibliographers and Book Collectors, 1999; The Letters of Wilkie Collins, 1999; G. Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 2000; (with K. Womack) A Companion to the Victorian Novel, 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Address: Dept of English, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115-2868, U.S.A. Online address: wbaker@niu.edu