Meredith Henne Baker

Meredith Henne Baker is a 2021 Virginia Humanities Fellow and received her graduate degree in American History from the College of William and Mary. She currently writes from the Richmond, Virginia area. "The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster," winner of the 2012 Jules and Frances F. Landry Award, is her first book and is published by Louisiana State University Press. For more information about her research, her blog, and the Richmond Theater fire, please visit www.theaterfirebook.com and be sure to check out the book on https://lsupress.org/