| Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times Roy Earl Reed was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on February 14, 1930. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri. He worked for The Globe in Joplin, Missouri from 1954 to 1956, for The Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, and for The New York Times from 1965 until 1978. He was a White House correspondent and covered the civil rights movement. After leaving the newspaper, he taught journalism at the University of Arkansas. He wrote several books including Looking for Hogeye, Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal, and Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with The New York Times. He died after a severe stroke on December 10, 2017 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |