Growing Up (memoir)

Growing Up is a 1982 memoir by author and journalist Russell Baker. It chronicles Baker's youth in Virginia, and Baltimore, and his mother's strength of character during the Great Depression. It won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

• Andrea Chambers, Those Funnybones Grew from a Depression-Era Virginia Boyhood, People, December 20, 1982
• New York State Writers Institute
• Richard Lingeman, Suspiciously like Real Life, The New York Times, October 17, 1982