Born in Chicago and raised in Wisconsin, he received an excellent education in a one room school house and public high school in Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with degrees in Geology(1972) and Soil Science (1975). He studied and worked in Uppsala, Sweden, for a year, before traveling on the cheap around Europe for several months. He also completed a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1980 and a Ph.D. degree in Geology in 1985 from the University of Colorado- Boulder, with a specialization in Hydrology.
He worked in scientific research for several years before becoming a Consulting Hydrologist, solving hydrologic and environmental problems for industrial, and mining industries as well as for government agencies. He taught at the University of Colorado and Denver University as a part-time instructor. He was the CEO and President of Baker Consultants, Inc. for many years. Throughout his career he has written dozens of scientific papers, hundreds of technical reports, and made presentations summarizing his work for clients and peers.
In the nonfiction area he has published recent articles on genealogical subjects and published definitive works on Baker Family genealogy and ancestry, a memoir, and a biography of his father’s life.
He has written several novels and short stories of fiction. The first novel in the Detective Sanchez/Father Montero Mystery series, An Imperfect Crime, is being released in June 2018 on Amazon and Kindle Books. The Science Fiction/Adventure novel set in Siberia, Zona—the Forbidden Land, will be released on Amazon and Kindle Books in autumn 2018. The series of adventures stories in the Modern Pirate Series will be released beginning in summer 2018 as eBooks on Kindle Books. A collection of these stories will be released in paperback form in 2019.
INFLUENCES:
Fiction: Ernest Hemingway, Alan Furst, Arthur C. Clark, Vince Flynn, John le Carre, and others.
Nonfiction: Douglas R. Hofstadter, Edmund Morris, Nathaniel Philbrick, James Gleick, David H. Fischer, and others.
Fred Baker writes both fiction and non-fiction in different categories. He has recently written a number of short stories and is working on two novels set in Russia, one an espionage/thriller and one a historical fiction novel. He also writes articles related to genealogy, science and history. 
