Early Career
Duranty was born to a prominent Protestant merchant family in largely Catholic Liverpool. After finishing college, Duranty moved to Paris. During the Great War, he held a job as a reporter. In 1919, he gained initial notice from a story about the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. He then moved to Riga, Latvia, to cover events in the newly independent Baltic States.
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