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Kellogg Durland
1881–1911
An adventurous early 20th-century journalist, he threw himself into the worlds he wrote about, from Scottish coal mines to revolutionary Russia. His books stand out for their firsthand reporting and strong interest in social conditions.
2 Audiobooks
Royal Romances of To-day
by Kellogg Durland
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia
by Kellogg Durland
About the author
Born in New York City in 1881, Kellogg Durland was an American writer, journalist, and social reformer. He studied at Harvard and became known for immersive reporting, including time spent living and working among miners in Fife, Scotland, material that later became Among the Fife Miners.
Durland also worked in settlement-house reform and wrote for newspapers and magazines. His best-known books include The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia, drawn from his experiences reporting in Russia during the upheavals of 1906, and Royal Romances of To-day, published in 1911.
His career was brief but strikingly wide-ranging, marked by curiosity, nerve, and a desire to understand political and social life from the inside. He died in 1911 at just 30 years old.