Louise Bryant

(1885-1936)

American journalist

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Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 – January 6, 1936), an American feminist, political activist, and journalist, became best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917. Bryant, who married fellow journalist John Reed (her second husband) in 1916, wrote about Russian leaders such as Katherine Breshkovsky, Maria Spiridonova, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. Her news stories, distributed by Hearst during and after her trips to Petrograd and Moscow, appeared in newspapers across the United States and Canada in the years immediately following World War I. A collection of articles from her first trip was published in 1918 as Six Red Months in Russia. Over the next year, she defended the revolution in testimony before the Overman Committee, a Senate subcommittee established in September 1918 to investigate foreign influence in the United States. Later in 1919, she undertook a nationwide speaking tour to encourage public support for the Bolsheviks and to denounce armed U.S. intervention in Russia.

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Born	Anna Louise Mohan 5 December 1885 San Francisco, California USA
Died	6 January 1936 (aged 50) Sèvres, France
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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Paul Trullinger - · · m. 1909; div. 1916 info edit

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John Reed 1887-1920 · American journalist, poet, and activist · m. 1916 info edit

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William Christian Bullitt, Jr. 1891-1967 · American diplomat · m. 1924; div. 1930 info edit

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