Tim Baker

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About Tim Baker

Tim Baker is an award-winning author, journalist and storyteller specialising in surfing history and culture, working across a wide variety of media, from books and magazines to video, theatre and digital. Tim is the best-selling author of numerous books on surfing, including The Rip Curl Story, Occy, High Surf, Bustin’ Down The Door, Surf For Your Life, Century of Surf and Surfari. His latest book Patting The Shark documents his journey managing a stage 4, prostate cancer diagnosis. Tim wrote Patting The Shark as part of a creative writing PhD scholarship from Griffith University. He is a former editor of Tracks, Surfing Life and Slow Living magazines, and a two-time winner of the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Sunday Age, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, GQ, Text Journal as well as surfing magazines around the world. In July 2015, Tim was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer and seven years on remains in good health and spirits, till surfing, writing and travelling. He is in demand as a public speaker and on the writers festival circuit.