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Baker, Ray Stannard
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| (1870–1946)
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| biography:
| Journalist and writer, born in Lansing, Michigan, USA. A Chicago journalist, he became a leading ‘muckraking’ crusader for McClure's Magazine (1898–1906) and American Magazine (1906–15). After 1910 he made his home in Amherst, MA. While with the American Magazine he began a series of essays under the pen name, David Grayson, and his first collection. Adventures in Contentment (1907). was so popular that he published eight more volumes. His Following the Color Line (1908) collected his pioneering articles on race relations. He became a supporter of Woodrow Wilson and accompanied him to the Versailles peace conference after World War 1. Later work includes an edition of Wilson's papers (16 vols, 1925–7) and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography (8 vols, 1927–39). |
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