BAKER
Read about author, Frank Baker HERE
Francis Baker (22 May 1908 Hornsey, London – 06 Nov 1982 Porthleven) was a British author of novels and short stories, mainly on fantastic or supernatural themes. He was also an actor, musician and
television scriptwriter.
“Mr Baker was always dressed very smartly and had a goatee beard,
I think Mrs Baker may have been a university lecturer. “
Frank BAKER, author died of cancer at the family home ‘Bay Ridge’ in Peverell Terrace, Porthleven.
Francis Baker was born at Hornsey in London in 1908, the son of a marine insurance salesman.
……. Eventually Frank and Kathleen BAKER finally settled in Porthleven. Both Frank’s daughter, and many of his nine grand children, were born in Cornwall, a county which inspired him throughout his life.
His best-known works are his novels, The Birds (1936) and Miss Hargreaves (1940), and his memoir, I Follow But Myself (1968).
In 1982, Baker died in Porthleven
Novels
- The Twisted Tree (1935)
- The Birds (1936) reissued in 2013 by Valancourt Books with an introduction by Ken Mogg
- Miss Hargreaves (1940)
- Allanayr (1941)
- Sweet Chariot (1942)
- Playing With Punch (1944)
- Mr Allenby Loses the Way (1945)
- Before I Go Hence (1946)
- Embers (1946)
- The Downs So Free (1948)
- My Friend the Enemy (1948)
- Blessed Are They (1951)
- Lease of Life (1954)
- Talk of the Devil (1956)
- Teresa: A Journey Out of Time (1961)
Collections
- Stories of the Strange and Sinister (1983)
Non fiction / Autobiographical
- The Road Was Free (1948)
- I Follow But Myself (1968)
- Call of Cornwall (1976)
Porthleven Museum 