John Reed
American journalist, poet, and communist activist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1887 to 1920 · aged 32
John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses.
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The Harvard Monthly Vol. 44 (1907)
A native of Oregon, Reed made New York City the base of his operations.
Reed c. 1917
1987 Soviet stamp reading, "Worker of the American labor movement, internationalist writer, John Reed"
The cover of this 1919 British pamphlet emphasizes Reed's short-lived status as Soviet consul.
Cover of Reed's Voice of Labor, October 1919
German edition of 10 Days That Shook The World, published by the Comintern in Hamburg in 1922.About this person
He is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.
