Logan Marshall

Born Logan Howard-Smith in Germantown, Philadelphia, he wrote under the pen name Logan Marshall. Sources available here identify him as a University of Pennsylvania graduate who went on to work as an assistant editor at the John C. Winston Company, where he edited and wrote many books.

Marshall became known for quickly produced nonfiction tied to major public events. His best-known title is The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters (1912), one of the earliest widely read books about the catastrophe, built from contemporary reporting and survivor accounts.

He also worked on other topical and historical books, including volumes on Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal. Although the exact birth year in modern listings is not entirely consistent, the sources reviewed agree that he died in 1937.