Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 (Personal Name)

His The countryman's year, c1985: CIP t.p. (David Grayson) galley (pen name of Ray Stannard Baker)

LC data base, 1-28-85 (hdg.: Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946)

Britannica academic edition online, 29 September 2014 (Ray Stannard Baker, pseudonym David Grayson; born April 17, 1870, Lansing, Michigan; died July 12, 1946, Amherst, Massachusetts; journalist, popular essayist, literary crusader for the League of Nations, authorized biographer of Woodrow Wilson)

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed December 11, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Baker, Ray Stannard; journalist, biographer, magazine and journal editor, publisher, civil rights activist; born 17 April 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, United States; studied at the University of Michigan Law School; became a reporter for the Chicago Record newspaper (1893); began his career as a muckraker by documenting class disparities; was hired by McClure's Magazine (1897)where he achieved fame by uncovering labor union corruption; he and his colleagues purchased the American Magazine (1906); investigated Atlanta's 1906 race riot, interviewing leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois; combined his articles from the American and McClure's into the critically acclaimed volume Following the Color Line; became an honorary president of the NAACP (1915); was Woodrow Wilson's press secretary at Versailles (1919); published Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement (1922) and the eight-volume Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters (1927-1939); died 12 July 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)