Author. He received recognition as an American author but also a publisher and journalist. His book "Barbarous Mexico" facilitated the political humiliation of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz's regime in the eyes of the American public. Politically a socialist, Turner was hired as a stringer for the Fresno Republican. Following his marriage in 1905 to writer Ethel Evelyn Duffy, the couple lost their apartment in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and had to spent a brief period in Portland, Oregon. He edited sports at the "Portland Journal" before moving to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Turner worked as a reporter for the "Los Angeles Herald." In Los Angeles, Turner met the Socialist Party leaders Job Harriman and John Murray. They introduced him to Mexican anarcho-syndicalist leaders Ricardo Flores Magón, Librado Rivera, Antonio Villareal, and Manuel Sarabia in April of 1908. They were clients of Harriman's and accused of violating neutral laws of the United States to plan a revolution in Mexico. In an interview, they told Turner about the exploitation and slavery in Diaz's regime. The interview with the Mexican anarcho-syndicalists caused a movement among American radicals to free the prisoners in Los Angeles County Jail. The encounter with them was also the starting point for Turner's book "Barbarous Mexico." From 1908 to 1911, the Turners were involved in Mexico's revolutionary movement, and "Barbarous Mexico," criticizing the corruption and brutal labor system under Diaz, played a role in accelerating it. Turner posed undercover as a tobacco buyer for a New York firm, following the trend in undercover reporting Elizabeth Cochrane started. The wealthy Bostonian Elizabeth Darling Trowbridge sponsored his travel. Mexican lawyer Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara assisted him. After joining his wife in Tucson, Arizona, he prepared Mexico stories there. He got a contract with "American Magazine" to serialize his story. Its editor John Sanborn Phillips sent him back to Mexico to investigate the Mexican government's role in the peonage system. Turner worked as a sportswriter in the English-language newspaper "Mexico Herald" to continue his undercover report. In October of 1909, the first installment of "Barbarous Mexico" was released. In his writings about Mexico, Turner appealed to emotions, and he was criticized for sensationalism and a lack of facts. The Porfirian regime discredited "Barbarous Mexico" in both the Mexican and American media. Among the owners of the press that criticized Turner's report were people who invested in Mexico and owned properties there, such as William Randolph Hearst of the liberal magazine "Cosmopolitan." Diaz's supporters pushed "American Magazine" to drop the report. "Barbarous Mexico" returned in the media through the socialist weekly "Appeal to Reason." The newspaper published six articles from the book and other related articles by Turner. Together with WFM Mexican miners, Turner welcomed Flores Magón and his followers when they were released from prison in Florence, Arizona, in August of 1910. They escorted the Mexican revolutionaries due to fear of an ambush by the Mexican government. At this point, Turner adopted an active role in the revolutionary movement. He directed the crowd and announced that "only an armed revolution" could solve Mexico's problems. He collaborated for the newspaper "Regeneración" of the Mexican Liberal Party, led by Flores Magón. From 1912, the family lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, where poet George Sterling let them take over his house. Turner wrote articles for the socialist newspapers the New York Call and Appeal to Reason and other periodicals, covering the labor wars in American coalfields. He posed as a New York magazine writer and exchanged liquor for information with mine guards and militia officers. He traveled to research gunmen corporations hired to stop strikes and labor unions. Political developments in the 1920s and 1930s discouraged Turner and he ceased his writing and political activities. He and his wife Ethel separated in 1925 and he later married socialist writer Adriana Spadoni. In 1941, he published his last book, "Challenge to Karl Marx."