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Waldron Baily
1871–1953
A North Carolina businessman, mayor, and novelist, he wrote fiction deeply rooted in the state's mountains and coast. His best-known book, The Heart of the Blue Ridge, was adapted into a silent film in 1915.
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Heart of the Blue Ridge
by Waldron Baily
When the Cock Crows
by Waldron Baily
About the author
Born Dyckman Waldron Baily in Mount Kisco, New York, on July 1, 1871, he later made his life in North Carolina as both a businessman and a writer. Sources describe him as the founder of Baily Manufacturing Company in Elkin, and note that he also served as mayor there.
His fiction is closely tied to North Carolina settings, especially the Blue Ridge and the coast. The Heart of the Blue Ridge, published in 1915, became his best-known work and was adapted for the screen the same year.
Baily died on April 21, 1953. Though not widely remembered today, his books offer a vivid glimpse of early twentieth-century North Carolina and the regional storytelling that grew from it.