John Reed

John Reed (USA, 1887-1920) was a journalist, poet, and socialist activist. He was married to Louise Bryant, a writer and feminist. He covered the Mexican Revolution (1913) for Metropolitan Magazine, witnessing the advance of Pancho Villa's army. He was a war correspondent during World War I. His best-known book – Ten Days That Shook the World – is a vivid account of the Bolshevik Revolution, published two years after the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917. In 1919 he founded the Communist Party of the USA. He died in Moscow in 1920 and was buried with hero's honors in the Kremlin Necropolis on Red Square, being the only American to have been granted this honor.