Terry Reed:  

Grosse Pointe (Michigan) High School; B.A., Miami University; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Spent collegiate summers sailing Lake Michigan and cycling through Europe, once with the daughter of a Hollywood actress. Published over 330 invited journal and magazine pieces in Penthouse and elsewhere, including contracted writing for Oxford University Press and Microsoft Corp. Two of his graduate school monographs survive on microfilm: "Theme, Symbol and Wit in the Fiction of L. P. Hartley," along with "Philip Freneau and the Art of Political Satire." Authored a book on Truman Capote's literary career (and later his obituary) for which he was offered a contract from a Boston publisher immediately after leaving the UK; another Bost0n book on Broadway playwright/New Yorker essayist S.N. Behrman followed, as did two books on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, especially Indy: The Race and Ritual of the Indianapolis 500, Second Edition, acclaimed by critics as the leading book on the subject, University of Nebraska Press (is its third publisher), marketed also by Amazon. Subsequently published: Of Herds and Hermits: America's Lone Wolves and Submissive Sheep (New York: Algora Books, 2009), available in hard cover, soft cover and e-book format. Acquired by Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago and other university libra...Expand for more