Nina Brown Baker wrote many biographies for young people. With her special talent for research and her ability to re-create the times and settings in which her subjects lived, she succeeded in bringing to life people who might otherwise be remembered only as names in the long pageant of history—Bolívar, Juárez, Peter the Great, Garibaldi, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. Mrs. Baker was a teacher in a rural school in Colorado, but for many years devoted her time exclusively to writing. She believed that the most interesting way to learn about a country is through the lives of its great men because, she felt, "that way you get a good story, too."
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