Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback John (Silas) Reed (1887-1920) American journalist and poet-adventurer whose colorful life as a revolutionary writer ended in Russia but made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals. Reed became a close friend of V.I. Lenin and was ...

The Portland Years of John Reed & Louise Bryant By Michael Munk Reed was a westerner and words meant what they said; when he said something standing with a classmate at the Harvard Club bar; he meant what he said from the soles of his feet to the waves of his untidy hairJack Reed was the best American writer of his time. -- Playboy by John Dos Passos, 1919. Reed was no theoretician; he could ...

Notable Oregonians: John Reed- Journalist/Poet Notable Oregonians home John Reed, 1887-1920 (image from Robert Hallowell portrait at Harvard University) John Reed was born in Portland, Oregon on October 22, 1887 to Charles Jerome Reed and Margaret Green Reed. As a youth he was educated at the Portland Academy. Reed graduated from Harvard in 1910, where he served on the editorial board of the ...