Adventures in Contentment

by David Grayson

Overview

Adventures in Contentment is a vintage writer autobiography of author David Grayson that features the cheerful musings of a young man who turns to nature, farm life and adventure outdoors in Amherst Region, Massachusetts, to regain his health and invigorate himself.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162201991
Publisher:	Whispering Pines Press
Publication date:	08/02/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	629 KB

About the Author

Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 – July 12, 1946) (also known by his pen name David Grayson) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and author.

Baker was born in Lansing, Michigan. After graduating from the Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), he attended law school at the University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the Chicago News-Record, where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey's Army in 1894.

In 1896, Ray Stannard Baker married Jessie Beal. They had four children: Alice Beal (1897), James Stannard (1889), Roger Denio (1902), and Rachel Moore (1906).

In 1898 Baker joined the staff of McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose to prominence along with Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled Adventures in Contentment (1910) under his pseudonym David Grayson, which reached millions of readers worldwide.