Elwood Reid

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Elwood Reid
Born (1966-12-19) December 19, 1966 (age 57)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan

Brian "Elwood" Reid (born December 19, 1966) is an American novelist, short-story writer and television screenwriter.

Early life[edit]

Reid was born in Cleveland, Ohio in a working-class area.[1] Reid played college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1985 to 1986[2] on a football scholarship.[3]

A great influence on him was American novelist Elmore Leonard. When he died in August 2013, Reid, who considered Leonard to be a major influence, extended condolences to Leonard on Twitter and praised him as being "one of the greats".[4]

Prose[edit]

Novels[edit]

Short story collections[edit]

  • What Salmon Know (Doubleday, 1999)[8]

Television[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Reid, Elwood". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ^ "UM Football Roster Search". Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Elwood Reid - After the jump". Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  4. ^ elwood reid [@elrudest] (August 20, 2013). "One of the greats is gone. RIP Elmore Leonard" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ Kirkus Reviews
  6. ^ Miles, Jonathan (15 October 2000). "Books in Brief: Fiction". The New York Times. p. 23. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  7. ^ The Huffington Post
  8. ^ Publishers Weekly

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