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{{Short description|American writer (1950–1999)}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Peter Baida
| birth_date         = July 26, 1950
| birth_place        = Baltimore, Maryland
| death_date         = December 14, 1999
| nationality        = American
| education          = Park School of Baltimore.
Harvard College
Boston University
| alma_mater         = University of Pennsylvania
| occupation         = Short Story Writer
}}
'''Peter Baida''' (July 26, 1950 – December 14, 1999) was an American [[short story]] writer.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/14/classified/paid-notice-deaths-baida-peter.html | work=The New York Times | title=Paid Notice: Deaths BAIDA, PETER | date=December 14, 1999 | accessdate=May 22, 2010}}</ref>
==Life==
Baida was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] and graduated from the [[Park School of Baltimore]]. He graduated from [[Harvard College]] (B.A., magna cum laude, English, 1972), [[Boston University]] (M.A., 1973, creative writing), and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] with an M.B.A. in 1979.<ref name="Sheridan">{{cite news |last1=Lyons |first1=Sheridan |title=Peter Baida, 49, won literary prize this year |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-12-12-9912130326-story.html |accessdate=9 January 2020 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 12, 1999}}</ref>
He was the [[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]]'s  director of direct mail fundraising from 1984 through 1999.<ref name="Sheridan" />
His work appeared in ''The Missouri Review'',<ref>[http://www.missourireview.com/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=212 TMR: A Doctor's Story] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823061026/http://www.missourireview.com/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=212 |date=2010-08-23 }}. Missourireview.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-08.</ref>
A writer-in-residence fellowship is named for him at the [[Park School of Baltimore]].<ref>[http://www.parkschool.net/academics/index.cfm?type=list&objectid=83 Academics · The Park School of Baltimore]. Parkschool.net. Retrieved on 2012-08-08.</ref>
==Awards==
* 1999 [[O. Henry Award]]
==Works==
===Short stories===
* {{cite book| title=A nurse's story, and others| publisher=University Press of Mississippi| year=2001| isbn=978-1-57806-318-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/nursesstoryother00baid}}
===Non-fiction===
*{{cite book| title=Poor Richard's legacy: American business values from Benjamin Franklin to Donald Trump| publisher=W. Morrow| year=1990| isbn=978-0-688-07729-7| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/poorrichardslega00baid}}
===Anthologies===
*{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4yfPuYbX44C&pg=PT580 | chapter=The Nurse's Story| title=Imagine what it's like: a literature and medicine anthology|editor=Ruth L. Nadelhaft |editor2=Victoria Bonebakker| publisher=University of Hawaii Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-8248-3317-6 }}
===Essays===
*[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1987/6/1987_6_22.shtml "The Fear of Getting Caught", ''American Heritage Magazine'', Jun 22, 1987]
*[http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0051 Peter Baida, "Review of Sinclair Lewis, If I Were Boss, The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis," ''Economic History'', Dec 7 1997]
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[[Category:20th-century American short story writers]]
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[[Category:Harvard College alumni]]
[[Category:Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni]]
[[Category:Wharton School alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Baltimore]]
[[Category:Park School of Baltimore alumni]]
[[Category:O. Henry Award winners]]