November, 2018 | Let No One Enter

New fiction in public library collections includes Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s.

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This book was published September 26, 2018 (trade paperback, ISBN 9781732464704). On October 25, an e-book edition was released as well (ISBN 9780463104002).

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Literary fiction encompassing immigrant assimilation, small-town relationships, teaching, high school culture, bullying, male-female relationships in early twentieth-century America, adult singles, boarding house life, Northern California during Great Depression, more.

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ISBN 978-1-7324647-0-4 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-4631040-0-2 (e-book)

One summer in the 1970s, Glenn A. Reed traveled to a primitive cabin, no electricity, in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. There, seated at his manual Underwood typewriter and accompanied only by his loyal Dalmatian, he returned in memory to Fort Bragg, California, where he taught high school from 1935 to 1937. The result, this posthumous novel, provides a look at the life of a schoolteacher in what was then an isolated Northern California town in the depths of the Great Depression.

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ISBN 978-1-7324647-0-4 (paper)

ISBN 978-0-4631040-0-2 (e-book)

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About This Book

The Author: A native Californian, Dr. Glenn A. Reed earned his academic degrees from Stanford University, where he majored in English. He began his teaching career at Fort Bragg, and completed it at San Jose State University, where he served as chair of the English department and retired as professor emeritus.

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Acknowledgements

With regard to the publication of Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s, I would like to acknowledge the following.

Mari Lynch of Fine Wordworking in Monterey, California assisted with the manuscript. In addition, Mari engaged in research to help ensure that the story was appropriately realistic for that period, even though fictitious. The results can be seen, for example, in the art included in this book’s pages.

The individuals and local institutions which assisted in Mari’s research are also appreciated. Special thanks to Dan Hess of the Fort Bragg Branch Library of the Mendocino County Library; Madeline Richards, Carol Naulty, Jaime Alexander, and Bruce Triplett of Fort Bragg High School, which granted permission to reuse art from the school’s 1932 and 1933 yearbooks, as well as my father’s 1937 yearbook photograph; the Fort Bragg – Mendocino Coast Historical Society; the Mendocino County Historical Society; and the newspaper archives of the Fort Bragg Advocate. Thank you also to Barbara McGuire for her kindness and local knowledge.

I sincerely appreciate the cooperation of all of these, and any others not named here, who have helped my father’s novel come to life.

—Glenn C. Reed

Month: November 2018

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