Logan Marshall

Writing under the pen name Logan Marshall, Logan Howard-Smith was a Philadelphia-born American author and editor. Sources identify him as born on November 18, 1883, and dying on September 22, 1937, though some library listings round his dates to 1884–1937.

He wrote and edited a large number of books, many designed to meet public interest in dramatic current events. Among the works most closely associated with him are The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, The World War, and The Wonder Book of Bible Stories. His books were typically direct, timely, and written for general readers rather than specialists.

Marshall is remembered less as a literary stylist than as a skilled popularizer: someone who quickly gathered history, reportage, and human drama into books that reached a wide audience. That makes him an especially interesting figure in the era before radio and television became dominant, when readers often turned to books for fast, wide-ranging accounts of the biggest stories of the day.