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G. A. Bauman
Writing from Quincy, Illinois, G. A. Bauman offered plainspoken advice on work, saving, education, character, and practical living. His short collection, Plain Facts, brings together lessons first written decades earlier and later dedicated to a younger generation.
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Plain Facts
by G. A. Bauman
About the author
Very little biographical information about G. A. Bauman has been firmly documented. What is known comes chiefly from Plain Facts, a 1921 booklet signed from Quincy, Illinois, in which Bauman describes the essays as expressions of convictions formed roughly twenty-five years earlier.
Bauman’s writing focuses on practical education, careful financial management, steady work, thrift, self-reliance, and the importance of good character. The collection was intended for younger readers, presenting his advice in a direct, encouraging style shaped by the social and economic concerns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.