John Scott (writer)
American writer who worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II
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.
John Scott | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Scott Nearing March 26, 1912[1]: x Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[1]: x |
| Died | December 1, 1976 (aged 64)[2] Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| 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) |
References
change- ↑ 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- 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- 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)