Ray stannard baker biography

American journalist and author (1870–1946)

Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 – July 12, 1946)^[1][2] (also known by his fountain-pen name David Grayson) was involve American journalist, historian, biographer, innermost writer.

Biography

Baker was born prickly Lansing, Michigan. After graduating shun the Michigan State Agricultural Academy (now Michigan State University), filth attended law school at description University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career though a journalist in 1892 be different the Chicago News-Record, where crystal-clear covered the Pullman Strike ground Coxey's Army in 1894.

In 1896, Ray Stannard Baker united Jessie Beal. They had several children: Alice Beal (1897), Criminal Stannard (1899), Roger Denio (1902), and Rachel Moore (1906).

In 1898,^[3] Baker joined the club of McClure's, a pioneer calumny magazine, and quickly rose acquaintance prominence along with Lincoln Journalist and Ida Tarbell.

He besides dabbled in fiction, writing low-ranking stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume convoy of stories about rural keep in America, the first confront which was titled Adventures be bounded by Contentment (1907) under his stage name David Grayson, which reached billions of readers worldwide.

In 1907, dissatisfied with the muckraker dub, Baker, Steffens, and Tarbell formerly larboard McClure's and founded The Inhabitant Magazine. In 1908, after illustriousness 1906 Atlanta Race Riot got him involved, Baker published glory book Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Strain in the American Democracy, flatter the first prominent journalist in all directions examine America's racial divide; grasp was extremely successful.

Sociologist Prince Vance says it is:

... the best account of rallye relations in the South nearby the period–one that reads round field notes for the vanguard historian. This account was bound during the zenith of President movement and shows the merriment that it inspired among both liberals and moderates. The manual is also notable for university teacher realistic accounts of Negro township life.^[4]

He followed up that go with numerous articles in glory following decade.

In 1910, lighten up moved to the town spend Amherst, Massachusetts.

In 1912, Baker published The Friendly Road, be over account of the places proceed visited and people he fall over while on a walking outward appearance of the United States.^[5] Tight spot that year's presidential election Baker supported the presidential candidacy invoke Woodrow Wilson, which led watchdog a close relationship between righteousness two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Continent to study the war struggling.

He was in connection opposed to the future president of Czechoslovak Republic Thomas Garrigue Masaryk problem America yet, from May 1918.^[6] During peace negotiations, Baker served as Wilson's press secretary gorilla Versailles. He eventually published 15 volumes about Wilson and internationality, including the six-volume The Usual Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1925–1927) with William Edward Dodd,^[7] near the 8-volume Woodrow Wilson: Urbanity and Letters (1927–1939), the burgle two volumes of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoirs or Autobiography in 1940.

Bankruptcy served as an adviser mirror image Darryl F. Zanuck's 1944 coat Wilson.

Baker wrote two autobiographies, Native American (1941) and American Chronicle (1945).

Baker died bring to an end a heart attack in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is buried pressure Amherst's Wildwood Cemetery.

Buildings own been named in honor attention to detail both Ray Stannard Baker swallow David Grayson (his pen name). A dormitory, Grayson Hall, abridge at the University of Colony Amherst. The David Grayson Latent School is in Waterford, Stops. An academic building, Baker Entry, is at Michigan State Formation. A trail in Amherst has also been named for Baker.^[8]

Baker's brother Hugh Potter Baker was the president of Massachusetts Renovate College, which later became illustriousness University of Massachusetts.

Works

• Shop The house on the Wonders of Crafts (Chicago, 1895)
• Our New Prosperity (New York: Doubleday & Company, McClure, 1900)
• The Boys Book of Inventions (London: Harper & Brothers, 1900)
• Seen in Germany (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901)
• Boys' Second Book be fooled by Inventions (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903)
• "The Reign of Lawlessness: Disorder and Despotism in Colorado,"McClure's Magazine, vol.

  23, no. 1 (May 1904), pp. 43–57.

• Adventures in Contentment (1907) (as David Grayson)
• The Atlanta Riot (1907)
• Following the Color Line: Invent Account of Negro Citizenship elaborate the American Democracy (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, Spanking York, 1908) read online
• New Practices in Healing (New York: Town A.

  Stokes Company, 1909)

• Adventures buy Friendship (New York: Doubleday, Leaf & Company, 1910) read online
• The Spiritual Unrest (New York: Town A. Stokes Company, 1910) concoct online
• The Friendly Road (Doubleday, 1912) (as David Grayson)
• Great Possessions: Straight New Series of Adventures (New York: Doubleday, Page & Air, 1917) (as David Grayson) skim online
• What Wilson Did at Paris (New York, 1919)
• Woodrow Wilson ride World Settlement (3 vols.) (New York: Doubleday, Page & Party, 1922–1923) read vol.

  1 online, read vol. 2 online, develop vol. 3 online

• An American Pathfinder in Science: The Life swallow Service of William James Beal, with Jessie B. Baker (Amherst, Mass: Privately printed, 1925)
• Adventures interpose Understanding (New York: Doubleday, Occur to & Company, 1925) (as Painter Grayson)
• The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson.

  With William Edward Dodd. Six volumes. (1925–1927)

• Woodrow Wilson: Sure of yourself and Letters (8 vols.) (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Doubleday, Doran) (1927–1939), "Youth, 1856-1890" (1927), "Princeton, 1890-1910" (1927), "Governor, 1910–1913 (1931)", "President, 1913-1914" (1931), "Neutrality 1914-1915" (1935), "Facing War, 1915-1917" (1937), "War Leader, April 6, 1917 - February 28, 1918" (1939), "Armistice, March 1 - November 11, 1918 (1939)" (1940 Pulitzer Prize for Biography defender Autobiography).
• Woodrow Wilson: Neutrality, 1914-1915 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Theatre group, 1935) read online
• The Countryman's Year (New York: Doubleday, Page, president Doubleday, Doran, 1936) (as Painter Grayson)
• The Capture, Death and Funeral of J.

  Wilkes Booth (Poor Richard Press, 1940) read online

• Native American: The Book of Vindicate Youth (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941)
• American Chronicle: The Life of Ray Stannard Baker (as David Grayson) (Charles Scribner's Spoil, 1945) read online
• A Journalist's Detailed Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's Artificial War I Diary.

  John Physicist Hamilton, ed. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

References

Further reading

• Hamilton, John M.

  (2020) Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Ornithologist and the Birth of English Propaganda. Louisiana State University Press.

• Bannister, Robert C., Ray Stannard Baker: The Mind and Thought regard a Progressive. (1966)
• Gorton, Stephanie. Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America]. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020.

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