Marshall, Logan, 1884-

Logan Marshall (Marshall, Logan, 1884– ) was an early English-language writer of popular nonfiction whose personal details, including his exact dates and nationality, remain very limited in publicly available sources. Four of his works are held in the collection, all centered on disaster reportage and wartime accounts: The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado records domestic disasters such as floods, fires, and tornadoes, while The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, and Other Great Sea Disasters recounts the sinking of the Empress of Ireland and other maritime catastrophes. He also wrote a survey of the history of nations and empires, and Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, which documents atrocities committed during the First World War. Aimed at general readers, his writing relies mainly on event narrative and compilation of materials, with an emphasis on immediacy and readability, making him one of the representative authors of early twentieth-century popular disaster and war literature.