The Collected Short Stories of Jerome Baker

Kentucky author Jerome "Joe" Baker is a native of Hazard. He holds medical related degrees from the University of Kentucky and Emory University in Atlanta. He held management positions in several hospitals and was a Health Record Administrator for twenty five years before retiring from the Lexington/Fayette County Health Department and Primary Care Center. He is a performing French horn player and enjoys composing, drawing, painting and collecting model trains. A widower, he has four adult children and eight grandchildren. Having written in college, he rediscovered the joy of creative writing at the age of 69, and now, at the age of 74, and still creating, he has eleven poems, over 50 short stories, and four novels to his credit. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.