Ray Stannard Baker

Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) was an American journalist, author, and biographer born in Lansing, Michigan. A prominent muckraker at McClure's Magazine alongside Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, he co-founded The American Magazine and authored pioneering works like Following the Color Line (1908) on race relations, as well as rural essays under the pen name David Grayson, such as Adventures in Contentment (1907). He served as Woodrow Wilson's press secretary at Versailles and wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning eight-volume Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters (1927-1939). Swarthmore College, EBSCO Research Starters