[AlexBell]

I am now working on Smoke by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), translated by Constance Garnett (1861-1937), with an Introduction by John Reed. There was an American journalist by that name (1887-1920) who visited and died in Russia. But there is no mention in his Wikipedia article of him being the one who introduced the edition of Smoke published by The Modern Library in 1919.

Can I assume that this man wrote the introduction? Or can anyone point me to another John Reed who did write the introduction? Or is 1920 early enough for me to use the introduction without being sure?

The version I want to use as text source, with John Reed's Introduction, comes from the University of Adelaide ebook library, who say that that it is in the Public Domain in Australia (death+70). I think is far better than the one done by Wikisource which has Edward Garnett's introduction.