Dorothy Baker

The Profile

Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was an American novelist best known for Young Man with a Horn (1938), a novel about jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.

Young Man with a Horn was published in 1938. The review notes an Italian edition published by Fazi Editore in November 2015 and mentions a 1950 film adaptation titled Young Man with a Horn and a 1991 Pupi Avati film about Bix.

The available review discusses Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel Young Man with a Horn and its focus on jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. The reviewer sketches Bix's life, musical style, struggles with alcohol, and the novel's later Italian edition. Mentions of film adaptations also appear.