Russell Baker, author and NY Times columnist is dead at 93

LEESBURG, Va. — Russell Baker, the genial, but sharp-witted writer who won Pulitzer Prizes for his humorous columns in The New York Times and a moving autobiography of his impoverished Baltimore childhood and later hosted television's "Masterpiece Theatre," has died. He was 93.Allen Baker told The Associated Press that his father died on Monday from complications after a fall.Baker in his later years, lived in Leesburg, Virginia, not far from the rural community of his native Morrisonville