ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas Reed was born in Oberlin, Ohio and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where his father was a university professor. Tom taught literature, film, and writing at Dickinson College for thirty years.

Pocketful of Poseys draws on his experience growing up in an academic family; his education at Yale, the University of Virginia, and Oxford; years spent living in Rome and Christchurch, N.Z.; travels around the world with his wife and children, and courageous decisions made by his mother-in-law as she faced her death.

Tom’s first novel, Seeking Hyde, grew out of decades of exploring, teaching, researching, and writing about the life and times of Robert Louis Stevenson. Seeking Hyde was named Finalist in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction.

He and his wife Dottie now split their year between Sarasota, Florida, and Camp Pemigewassett, a summer camp for boys in New Hampshire. Founded by Tom’s grandfather and two partners in 1908, it is the oldest residential boys’ camp in the country still owned and operated by the founding families.