John Reed
Sign in to saveAmerican journalist, poet, and communist activist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887-10-02
- Died
- 1920-10-19
- Works
- 145
Top works
- A sermon preached before the Plymouth ...
- A sermon, preached in Orleans, at the ordination of the Rev. Daniel Johnson, May 11, 1808
- Schubert
- I saw the new world born
- Cocaine and Other Provincetown Plays
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Film & TV
Writing · Portland, Oregon, USA
Known for
- Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution — Self - Journalist (archive footage)2017
- Faith of the Century: A History of Communism — Self (archive footage)1999
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 490
- Total plays
- 3,302
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 199,603x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,013x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,459x
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Key facts
- Born
- John Silas Reed , ( 1887-10-22 ) October 22, 1887, Portland , Oregon , U.S.
- Died
- October 17, 1920 (1920-10-17) (aged 32), Moscow , Russian SFSR
- Resting place
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis , Moscow
- Education
- Harvard University
- Occupations
- Journalist poet political activist
- Political party
- Communist Labor Party of America
- Spouse
- Louise Bryant ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1916 )
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Key dates
- Born
- 2 October 1887
- Died
- 19 October 1920
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Silas
- Family name
- Reed
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Portland
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Spouse
- Louise Bryant
- Occupation
- author
- Political party
- Socialist Party of America
Article
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) 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. 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.
Reed supported the Soviet takeover of Russia, even briefly taking up arms to join the Red Guards in 1918. He hoped for a similar communist revolution in the United States, and co-founded the short-lived Communist Labor Party of America in 1919. He died in Moscow of spotted typhus in 1920. At the time of his death, he may have soured on the Soviet leadership, but he was given a hero's burial by the Soviet Union and is one of only five Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.