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Author Grant Harper Reid’s Biography
The author’s educational background was standard, except he was one of the first Harlem children bussed from P.S. 197. They were bused to P.S. 7 in the Bronx’s Kingsbridge for an improved and more advanced education. He wanted to be a writer when he grew up, so he wrote a script and left it with Robert Redford’s doorman. Redford wrote Grant back with encouraging statements, “It's good stuff.” Then, the budding went on to write a second movie script, which became a finalist out of 900 in the 1991 Writer’s Guild of America East Contest.
Grant studied with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and in activist/actor Ossie Davis’ Institute of New Cinema Artists program in 1977.
During the author's teen years, he worked for Motown Records and Commodore Entertainment, helping to put Lionel Richie and the Boys on the map, winding up, and even directing Michael Jackson backstage at Madison Square Garden. He also became a photographer, taking pictures of Jimi Hendrix, then went on to work in the film industry, thanklessly managing and finding locations for Sir Alan Parker, Francis Coppola, Lord Richard, Sir Paul McCartney, and everybody that was and is anybody in Hollywood, New York, and England.
Reviewed by Maria Victoria Beltran for Readers' Favorite
The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College by Grant Harper Reid is an intriguing autobiography about one man’s quest to get a college education. Upon graduation from high school, Grant attends Lincoln University. However, after only three disappointing days at Lincoln, Grant returns home to Teaneck, New Jersey. To his surprise, his family has been evicted from their home. He ends up sitting on the sidewalk with his luggage. Determined to follow his dream, he decides to enroll at Marquette University far away in the mid-west. What follows is a tumultuous journey as he experiences the struggles of being a black student at a predominantly white college campus. The awkward teenage boy has to grow up fast and become a mature college graduate. This is his story.
Grant Harper Reid’s The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College is a life story that focuses on the author’s unusual journey in getting a college diploma. It is a record not only of the events but of his thoughts, emotions, and intentions during the five years that he spent in three different universities. Narrating in the first-person, the author’s literary writing style is casual, as if talking to a close friend. I found it fascinating that he could describe the settings and the characters in such vivid detail after all these years, warts and all. This a memoir about persistence and personal growth despite the odds. This book should inspire readers not to give up easily on achieving their dreams in life.
