Harlem Bible Author’s Biography

Grant Harper Reid grew up in Harlem with his family. As a pre-teen, he and his family moved to the suburbs of Teaneck, New Jersey during its White Flight period. Throughout those formative years, the author often traveled back to Harlem to visit family members or engage in temporary summer employment.

Once Grant graduated from Bard College, he returned to his beloved Harlem. The authored continued his education with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Ossie Davis’s Institute of New Cinema Artists.

Then Grant went on to work professionally in the wonderful world of entertainment. He kicked off his career with a variety of functions for recording artists and their companies. Reid went on to earn a living servicing all departments while on location for motion picture, music video, and commercial enterprises.

Grant thrived while working up close and side by side with some of the most important people in the film industry. His many years of employ ensued in spite of having to work with some of the most, racist Caucasians and self-absorbed cowardly Negroes this side of Hollywood, the Harlem River, and the Mason-Dixon Line.

It was by no means an unproblematic task for Reid to become proficient as a writer. While in third grade he was bussed from Harlem into an all-white school in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. The students in his classes were educationally advanced in English, and the officials ignored what deficits the ghetto children brought with them. It took Reid a lifetime to become the Grand-Prize Five Star award-winning author that he is today. The Barrymore Award that was bestowed upon him by the Fort Lee Film Commission for his years of excellent motion picture research is one of the author’s most prized honors.

Harlem Bible is an engaging and hilarious book that explores genuine Black History.