John Chabot Smith

John Chabot Smith (September 1, 1915 – May 16, 2002) was an American journalist and author, best known for his book: Alger Hiss: The True Story.

Personal life Smith was born on September 1, 1915, in Croydon, UK. He attended the Loomis Institute. He majored in history at Princeton University. He did graduate studies at Cambridge University. Leon Dennen called him a "pro-Tito correspondent."

Works Of his book on Alger Hiss, Kirkus noted: "Don't expect bombshells. The hard evidence is slow in coming and can be bewilderingly technical when it come." The Western Journal of Speech Communications assessed the book as "thoroughly sympathetic [to Hiss]."

Books Alger Hiss: The True Story (1976) The Children of Master O'Rourke: An Irish Family Sage (1977)

Articles ”Woman Informer Against Reds Is Called by Thomas Committee" New York Herald Tribune (29 July 1948) "On Alger Hiss" New York Review of Books (25 November 1976) "The Debate of the Century" Harper's Magazine (June 1978)