Logan MarshallLogan Marshall was born in November 1883 and died in November 1936. He was an American author and editor, renowned for writing about true events. Howard-Smith went to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1905. Upon graduation, he started wrking as an assistant editor at The John C. Winston Company, a publishing firm. Winston was later received by Henry Holt and turned out to be part of Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. At Winston, Howard-Smith both wrote and edited a wide number of books, mostly under the pen name of Logan Marshall. Thus, Howard-Smith has been described as a (hack), and his language is criticized as strained, unnecessary, or melodramatic. Howard-Smith's (as Logan Marshall's) The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters have achieved a lot of fame because of being widely available and keep on being referred to and cited in bibliographies about the tragedy. Read More Read Less