Marguerite Young (journalist)

Marguerite Young
Born	Marguerite Keller 1907? 1909? New Orleans?
Died	1995?
Occupation	Writer, journalist, memoirist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Louisiana State University
Literary movement	Communist (CPUSA)
Years active	1928–?
Spouse	Seymour Waldman? (divorced)

Disambiguation: Not to be confused with contemporary Marguerite Young (novelist)

Marguerite Young (1907 or 1909? – 1995?) was an early 20th-Century female American journalist, best known for her Communist Party affiliation, specifically as the Washington bureau chief of the Daily Worker who facilitated the introduction between Soviet spy Hede Massing and American recruit Noel Field. She also knew Alger Hiss (who had also tried to recruit Field). After two years with that newspaper, the CPUSA secretary general and newspaper's editor fired her. During World War II and at least to 1950, she worked for the New York Herald-Tribune.

Marguerite Young was born Marguerite Keller, one of two girls and five children. She grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She attended Louisiana State University, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.

In late 1928 or early 1929, just before President Herbert Hoover's inauguration of March 4, Young arrived in Washington, DC, with a letter of introduction from her editor at the New Orleans Item-Tribune. According to the Ruson Daily Leader, Young had arrived in Washington from New Orleans with Seymour Waldman.

Kent Cooper, head of the Associated Press, had hired her among a pool of the newswire's first-ever women reporters. (Another was Julia Davis, daughter of John W. Davis of Davis Polk & Wardwell.) Over the next 18 months, she worked under editors, including Byron Price, Clarke Salmon, and Jim Williams.

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