Indystar.com Has One on Bernard \”Stoney\” Baker, writer of Westerns featuring a fictional black hero also named Stoney Baker.
In the past five years, Baker has written three novels about the American West of the late 1800s. This, and he works at General Motors\’ Metal Fabrication Plant just west of Downtown Indianapolis.
\”I feel sometimes like I was born a century too late,\” the 52-year-old Baker says as he relaxes in the UAW Local 23 union hall next to the plant. \”I\’m here in this plant, but actually I\’m not here. I dream of the West, of horses. My dreams are in the wide open.\”
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