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Douglas S. Reed

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I am an educator and author of the novels Child of Gilead and Garden's Corner. Born in Queens, New York, my early travels as a teen and young adult took me to such places as Greenwich, CT and Syracuse University where I received a degree in Communications Management from the Samuel I. Newhouse School of Communications.

Upon graduation, I journeyed off to Los Angeles where I was initiated to and gained experience in the motion picture industry. While on the West Coast, I worked for Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Films in Burbank.

With my return to New York, I worked as a freelance Script Analyst for New Line Cinema and Vision Media/Greyhound Films where my duties included reading and evaluating literary material for the screen ...more

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Douglas Reed liked Susie Clifft's review of Elysian's Son: "Elysian and Freedom Domed cities. Training videos. Elites, workers, obedient consumers. Fail the standards you'll be culled to the Wilderness. Resist and your escorts becomes an assassin. Mother Reina, guardian of the orphan, David tells him of Elysian" Read more of this review »
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Douglas Reed liked Chevron Ross's review of Elysian's Son: "It’s nice to see a new novel from Douglas S. Reed. I read Child of Gilead several years ago and enjoyed it immensely. His latest is Elysian’s Son, a thoughtful and engrossing tale about a dictatorial society. A young boy named David is a citizen of th" Read more of this review »
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