Candida Baker (born 1955)[1] is an Australian author, photographer, journalist and natural horsemanship practitioner.
Baker was born into a literary and theatrical family; her grandfather, J. C. Squire,[2] was a British poet, writer, historian and influential literary editor, her father was George Baker MBE (actor) and her mother, Julia Squire, was a costume and set designer.
In 1983 she and her then-partner Robert Drewe moved to Melbourne where Baker worked at The Age newspaper for a year before she was offered the position of Arts Editor at Time Australia magazine.
[7] Between 1986 and 1999 Yacker 1, 2, and 3, were all published, and Baker's first novel, Women and Horses, was a runner-up in the prestigious Vogel Australian Literary Awards in 1990.
[10] In 2001 Baker left News Ltd and moved out from Sydney to the Byron Bay hinterland to pursue an interest in natural horsemanship and from where she continues to write articles and books.
Born in London and raised in the small hamlet of Rousham in Oxfordshire, Baker immigrated to Australia when she was 22 after covering the London-to-Sydney car rally.