Western Massachusetts
Amherst
Ray Stannard Baker, Residence 1916-1946
Born in 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, Ray Stannard Baker was a journalist, editor, and biographer. His 1908 book, Follow the Color Line, made him the one of the first leading journalists to write about the racial divide in America. Baker also published nine volumes of “adventures in contentment” under the pen name “David Grayson.” Baker moved to Amherst in 1916, while working on his extensive biography of Woodrow Wilson. The multi-volume work won him the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Baker died in Amherst in 1946.
Ray Stannard Baker Residence
18 Sunset Avenue, Amherst, MA