John reed biography
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John Reed (novelist)
American novelist
For other people with the same name, see John Reed (disambiguation).
John Reed (born February 7, ) is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (), Snowball's Chance () with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (). His fifth book, Tales of Woe (), is a collection of twenty-five stories, chronicling true stories of abject misery.
Biography
[edit]Born in in New York City, Reed is the son of artists David Reed and Judy Rifka.[1] He attended Hampshire College, and received a Masters in Fine Art in Creative Writing from Columbia University.[2] He teaches at The New School.
Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, Open City, a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series.
Works
[edit]He is affiliated with the New York Press a
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John Reed: American Communist or American Spy?
Presenter: Richard Spence, Professor of History
Abstract
Portland-born John Reed is an icon of American radicalism. He was witness to the Bolshevik Revolution, and his Ten Days That Shook the World remains an important account. He became a founder of the U.S. Communist Party, died in Moscow, Russia, and was honored bygd the Soviets with a grave along the Kremlin Wall.
But was Reed really what he seemed? Was he, in, fact a long-time agent of American agencies and interests? Did some of his Soviet comrades discover or suspect this and did that lead to his premature death?
The answers may lie in the curious relationship between Reed and Weston Estes, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who infiltrated the radical movement of which Reed was a part. In , Estes helped free Reed from a jail in land i norden, and Reed then assisted Estes in entering Soviet Russia on a secret mission, a mission that may äga
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Almost ninety years after his burial on Red Square in Moscow, John Silas “Jack” Reed remains among the most controversial of Oregon’s native sons. During his brief life, he earned his celebrity by reporting on U.S. labor strikes, the Mexican revolution, World War I, and by being a founder of and international delegate for the Communist Labor Party. Early in Reed's career, Walter Lippman cautioned New Republic readers that he “is many men at once, and those who have tried to . . . regard him as a writer, a correspondent, a poet, a revolutionist, or a lover, lose him.” In , younger generations were introduced to Reed in Warren Beatty’s epic film Reds, and in a New York University panel of experts ranked his Ten Days That Shook the World seventh among the hundred best works of American twentieth-century journalism.
Reed was born on October 22, , in Cedar Hill, his grandfather Henry Dodge Green’s five-acre mansion near today’s Washington Park in Portland. Although Green’s widow