Known widely as the leading pioneer in labor journalism, throughout her long life Mary Heaton Vorse was deeply influenced by the social movements operating beneath the surface of events. Radical unionism, feminism, and socialism reverberate through her writing: fiction and nonfiction in sixteen books, dozens of short stories, two plays, and hundreds of articles. Vorse's career as a journalist is characterized by her ability to sense where crucial events in history would occur and to find the means to be there. She covered all the major strikes in the first third of the twentieth century; she covered many international conflicts and both world wars; she attended radical and women's meetings in many countries; and she was the first Western journalist in Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Moscow. Furthermore, after being twice widowed with young children, Vorse was solely responsible for raising her three children and for her family's income. She...