32 Facts About Louise Bryant

Louise Bryant was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917.

Louise Bryant grew up in rural Nevada and attended the University of Nevada in Reno and the University of Oregon in Eugene, graduating with a degree in history in 1909.

Louise Bryant died in Paris in 1936 and was buried in Versailles.

Anna Louise Bryant Mohan was born in 1885 in San Francisco, California.

Louise Bryant's father, Hugh Mohan, born in Pennsylvania, became a journalist and stump speaker involved in labor issues and Democratic Party politics.

Louise Bryant remained there for three or four years, returning to Wadsworth at her mother's insistence at the age of 12.

Louise Bryant adopted her stepfather's last name, but never changed it legally from Mohan.

Louise Bryant edited the "Young Ladies Edition" of the Student Record in 1905, wrote a short story, "The Way of a Flirt", for a literary magazine, Chuckwalla, and contributed sketches to it and another publication, Artemisia.

Depressed after the death of her step-grandfather in 1906, Louise Bryant left school for a job in Jolon, California, where for a few months she boarded at a cattle ranch and taught children, mostly young Mexicans.

Louise Bryant, who retained her maiden name and her downtown apartment after her marriage to Trullinger, bridled at doing housework and yearned for professional advancement.

Enthusiastic about its contents, particularly articles by Portland native John Reed, Louise Bryant began raising subscriptions for it.

Four months after leaving Oregon, Louise Bryant broke into print in New York with an article about two Portland judges, one of whom had dismissed a case brought against Goldman for distributing birth-control information.

Louise Bryant ended up collecting information about the war from as many sources as she could meet in Paris, and sent her news stories to Reed, who edited them and forwarded them to Wheeler.

Louise Bryant circulated widely, covering Duma meetings, dining in public mess halls with soldiers and workers, and interviewing women revolutionaries.

Louise Bryant found Greenwich Village much changed by the war: old friends had moved, rents had gone up, and tourists were replacing bohemians.

Louise Bryant was questioned in The Masses cases but not charged.

In February 1919, while still based in New York, Louise Bryant went to Washington, DC, to speak, along with Albert Rhys Williams, about the situation in Russia.

Louise Bryant stayed in Washington long enough to participate in a National Woman's Party suffrage rally, during which she was arrested, arraigned, and sentenced to five days in jail.

When Louise Bryant reached Petrograd, Reed was in Baku, attending the "first congress of peoples of the east" with the Comintern executive committee.

Louise Bryant had left a letter for her with several possibilities for lodging, one of which was a room he had arranged for her at the Dielovoy Hotel in Moscow.

Louise Bryant began filing Moscow news stories with the International News Service, which had hired her before she left New York.

Louise Bryant collapsed during the burial from a heart attack.

Louise Bryant went by train over the Kazakh Steppe, through areas hard hit by famine, to Tashkent and Bukhara and to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, interviewing and taking notes.

Louise Bryant returned to the US in mid-summer 1921, and stayed for about a year, during which she first met William Christian Bullitt, Jr.

Louise Bryant later returned to politics and became the first US ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Louise Bryant arranged with King Features Syndicate, another Hearst agency, to return to Russia to write portraits of Russians.

Shortly thereafter, Louise Bryant suspended her journalistic career to focus on family matters.

Two months later, Louise Bryant gave birth to her only child, Anne Moen Bullitt.

In "Louise Bryant Grows Old", historian Christine Stansell examines the great changes in Bryant's life after her marriage to Bullitt:.

The entrance of William Bullitt into Louise Bryant's life confounds the intertwined stories of the grief-stricken war widow, the radical heroine, and the champion of the oppressed.

Louise Bryant remained in Paris, occasionally advising writer Claude McKay, and briefly assisting researchers from Harvard University in preserving Reed's papers.

Louise Bryant died on January 6,1936, of a brain hemorrhage in Sevres, in the suburbs of Paris, and is buried in Cimetiere des Gonards in Versailles.