Internationally acclaimed author, Ray Stannard Baker, who also wrote under the name David Grayson, built this house in 1916 and lived in it until his death. Baker was a journalist, writer of fiction, and author of the eight-volume biography of President Woodrow Wilson which won hom a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. When the enormous elm tree across the street was in danger of being cut, he bought it; it is now known as the Grayson Elm. This English Tudor house became a UMass fraternity after Baker's death.
Baker achieved such phenomenal success writing under the pseudonym of David Grayson, that no fewer than six imposters travelled the country using his name. When one was caught proposing to a woman as David Grayson, Baker decided it was time he revealed that he himself was the one and only David Grayson.
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