Mary Heaton Vorse
Mary Heaton Vorse | |
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Vorse aboard the Dutch liner Noordam 1915 | |
| Born | October 11, 1874 |
| Died | June 14, 1966 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
| Employer(s) | Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Hearst Newspapers, McCall's, New York Post, New York World, The Masses, The Washington Post, Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| Organization(s) | Heterodoxy, Woman Suffrage Party, Woman's Peace Party |
| Notable work | Autobiography of an Elderly Women, Men and Steel, Strike!, The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors. |
Mary Heaton Vorse (October 11, 1874 – June 14, 1966) was an American journalist and novelist with commitments to the labor and feminist movements. She established her reputation as a journalist reporting the labor protests of a largely female and immigrant workforce in the east-coast textile industry. Her later fiction drew on this material profiling the social and domestic struggles of working women. Unwilling to be a disinterested observer, she participated in labor and civil protests. After returning as correspondent from Bolshevik Russia, she was for a period the subject of regular US Justice Department surveillance.