Louise Bryant

Louise Bryant ( born December 5, 1885 in San Francisco, California, † January 6, 1936 in Sèvres ) an American journalist and author who inspired mainly by Marxist and anarchist ideas and essays on radical politics and feminist issues was known was.

Life

When Anna Louisa Mohan Louise Bryant was born in 1885 in San Francisco, the daughter of Hugh Moran. At the age of three years, her parents divorced. In the following years she was raised by her stepfather Sheridan Bryant. She studied at the University of Nevada and the University of Oregon, where she was known for her strong love of freedom and their rebellious character. In 1909 she secretly married the dentist Paul Trulling from which she divorced later. At that time she was already planning her career as a writer.

After a long love affair Bryant married the journalist and written Featured John Reed, with whom she traveled to Russia in 1917 and 1918. During her stay there, she participated in the October Revolution and wrote articles over time. Reed died in 1920 in Moscow of typhus.

Four years after Reed's death, she married, as a reporter for the Hearst Newspaper, William C. Bullitt. They had a daughter (Anna ). The marriage was divorced in 1930, after a love relationship of Bryant. After the separation, Bullitt took the daughter to him and denied Bryant the contact with her daughter.

Bryant was 1928, the metabolic disease lipomatosis dolorosa diagnosed. Her death was marked by a long process of physical and mental deterioration. She died in 1936 in Sèvres.

Filming

In 1981 the film Reds. The film is based on the relationship between Bryant and Reed. It plays Diane Keaton Louise Bryant, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson John Reed Eugene O'Neill.