John Scott (writer)
John Scott | |
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Born | John Scott Nearing March 26, 1912[1]: x Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[1]: x |
Died | December 1, 1976[2] Chicago, Illinois, United States | (aged 64)
Resting place | Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States[2] |
Occupation | Writer, tradesman, journalist, editor, lecturer |
Notable works | Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel.[1] |
Spouse | Maria (Masha) Ivanovna Dikareva Scott (m. 1933; until his death in 1976) |
Children | Elka (1935); Elena (1939)[1]: photo insert |
Relatives | Scott Nearing (father); Helen Nearing (stepmother) |
John Scott (1912–1976) was an American writer. He was in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1941. His best-known book, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel,[1] is a memoir of that. Most of his career was as a journalist, book author, and editor with Time Life.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Scott 1989.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sanders, Jack. "John Scott Memorial". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
Sources[change | change source]
- Robinson, Robert (1988), Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union, with Jonathon Slevin, Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, ISBN 0-87491-885-5.
- Scott, John (1989) [1942], Kotkin, Stephen (ed.), Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0253205360, archived from the original on 2017-09-05, retrieved 2022-03-16.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House. ISBN 0-89526-571-0.
- Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers, New York: Random House (1997), pg. 182.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999), pgs. 194, 195, 237.
Further reading[change | change source]
- Tim Tzouliadis. The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Little, Brown, 2009. "The Alabaman Herbert Lewis was locked up in a Stalingrad prison [for assaulting Robinson]... his arrest, observed the visiting American reporter William Henry Chamberlin, seemed only to strengthen the "racial chauvinism" of the three hundred other Americans working at the tractor factory." (p. 39-40)
- Smith, Homer. Black Man in Red Russia. Johnson; Ex-Lib edition (1964). ASIN: B000IQ7HGQ
- The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
- An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Witkin, Zara (1900–1940)