Harriet Baker is a writer and critic. She has written about books, art and visual culture for the London Review of Books, Paris Review, New Statesman, Times, TLS, FT Magazine, and Apollo. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Today, and has spoken at the LRB Bookshop, the Barbican, and numerous literary festivals.

Her first book, Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, was published by Allen Lane in 2024. It has been awarded both the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize and the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.

She is represented by Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander Associates.