About Nancy Baker Nancy Baker is the author of four novels—The Night Inside, Blood and Chrysanthemums, A Terrible Beauty, and Cold Hillside—and Discovering Japan, a collection of short stories.She lives in Toronto and avoids writing by gardening, making jam, drinking martinis and working in finance. Books by Nancy Baker The First Blade of Sweetgrass A Wabanaki Story by (author) Suzanne Greenlaw & Gabriel Frey illustrated by Nancy Baker Ages 5 to 9 Grades k to 4