writing

Robert Leonard Reid’s publications include four books:
• Arctic Circle, reflections on the theme of birth and rebirth, set against the tale of Bob’s encounters with the Porcupine caribou herd in northern Yukon and Alaska; due in November 2009 from David R. Godine, American publisher of the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio;
• Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, a memoir of a quarter-century of mountaineering, published in 1991 by North Point Press, one of the most distinguished small presses in the country. The work was reprinted in later editions by HarperCollins and by the British publisher Hutchinson; it remains in print in a lovely edition from the University of New Mexico Press;
• America, New Mexico, a collection of essays on the sometimes generous, sometimes brutal connections between people and landscape in New Mexico, published by the University of Arizona Press (1998);
• A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada, edited by Bob, an anthology of essays and stories on the Sierra by some sixty authors, which remained in print for twenty-four years before its sad demise in 2007;

...some 100 magazine articles and essays in more than 40 periodicals, including:
• Sports Illustrated, Sierra, Stereo Review, California Magazine, America West, Oui, Genesis, Woman's Day, Money, The Progressive, Car and Driver, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The San Jose Mercury;

...and numerous other publications, including:
• the essay “The Writer’s Eye: Moments of Seeing in the Literature of the Sierra,” which appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition “From Exploration to Conservation: Picturing the Sierra Nevada” at the Nevada Museum of Art (1998);
• the essay “Earth, Sky, Invincible Wild,” published along with works by two dozen fellow Nevada writers in the anthology Wild Nevada: Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert (University of Nevada Press, 2005);
• the essay “West, to the Future,” which appeared as the closing selection in Cheryll Glotfelty’s definitive anthology, Literary Nevada: Writings From the Silver State, (University of Nevada Press, 2008);

I Say Nevada!, a cabaret revue produced by Nevada’s Proscenium Players (2008); and
lessons and supplementary materials for more than 100 mathematics textbooks, grades 4-12, for every major educational publisher, among them Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Holt, Houghton Mifflin, Scott Foresman, and Prentice Hall.