Baker, Ray Stannard (pseudonym David Grayson)

1870 - Born on the 17th of April in Lansing, Michigan.

1891 - Attended the University of Michigan Law school.

1892-1896 - He is the reporter of Chicago News-Record.

1897 - Joined the staff of McClure's Magazine, a leader in the "New Journalism".

1906 - Baker gained a national reputation as one of the leading "muckrakers".

1912 - Baker embracing the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson.

1918 - Baker sent to Europe to study the war situation.

1940 - The last two volumes of Wilson and Internationalism won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.

1946 - Baker died  on 12th of July because of a heart attack in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Baker wrote two autobiographies, "Native American", and "American Chronicle".