Logan Marshall

For the actor, see Logan Marshall-Green.

Logan Marshall (born 1884), was the pen name of Logan Howard-Smith of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Howard-Smith was the son of Robert Spurrier and Elizabeth (McKinney) Howard-Smith.[1] The father was an executive of Link-Belt.[2]

Howard-Smith attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1905.[3] Upon graduation he took a position as assistant editor at The John C. Winston Co.,[4] a publishing firm. Winston was later acquired by Henry Holt and became part of Holt, Rinehart & Winston. At Winston, Howard-Smith both edited and wrote a large number of books, mainly under the pen name Logan Marshall. These were often quickly produced and designed to satisfy public curiosity concerning a current event. As a result, Howard-Smith has been characterized as a "hack",[5] and his language criticized as "strained, excessive, or melodramatic."[6] Howard-Smith's (as Logan Marshall) The Sinking of the Titanic, however, achieved a great deal of fame as a result of being quickly at the market, and continues to be cited in bibliographies about the incident.

Works

Written as Logan Marshall

Written as Logan Howard-Smith

References

  1. Armstrong (comp.), Zella (1918). Notable Southern Families (Vol. 1). Chattanooga TN: The Lookout Publishing Company. p. 89.
  2. Leonard (ed.), John W. (1908). Who’s Who in Pennsylvania (2nd Ed.). New York: L. R. Hamersly & Company. p. 379.
  3. Maxwell (comp.), W. J. (1917). General alumni catalog of the University of Pennsylvania. p. 224.
  4. Warren (ed.), Aldice (1910). Catalog of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. New York: Delta Kappa Epsilon Council. p. 1160.
  5. ""Agents Wanted:" Subscription Publishing in America". Library of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  6. Robertson, Linda Raine (2003). The dream of civilized warfare: World War I flying aces and the American imagination. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 126–27. ISBN 0-8166-4270-2.

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