Later Career
In 1934, Duranty left Moscow and visited the White House in the company of Soviet officials including Litvinov. He continued as a Special Correspondent for The New York Times through 1940.
He wrote several books on the Soviet Union after 1940. His name was on Orwell's list of notable writers and other individuals he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department.
Duranty died in Florida in 1957.
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