Author: Ralph D. Paine

Ralph Delahaye Paine, born in Lemont, Illinois in 1871 was interested in adventure from an early age and carried that spirit with him through most of his life. As a young man he attended Yale University and became an avid rower for the crew team and refined an interest in writing with various magazine articles. Upon leaving Yale, Paine embarked on an adventurous career as an international journalist.In 1896 he and his friend Stephen Crane were among a number of journalists sent to Havana to cover the Cuban Revolution. On his return to New York in 1899 he married Katharine Lansing with whom he raised five children on his farm in Durham, New Hampshire while writing over forty books including his autobiography, Roads of Adventure. He died at the age of 54 in 1925.