Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s — Who will like this book?

“A beautiful book and interesting local story!”

—Fort Bragg Branch, Mendocino County Library on Facebook

Adults and older teens who value well-crafted literary fiction, including historical and California fiction, appreciate Let No One Enter. The following topics and more are encompassed in its pages: immigrant assimilation, small-town relationships, teaching profession, high school culture, bullying, adult singles life, boarding house life, male-female relationships in early twentieth-century America, life during the Great Depression, 1930s culture and art, and Northern California, including Mendocino County communities.

This posthumous novel is by Glenn A. Reed, former English department chair and professor emeritus at San Jose State University and a Stanford University alumnus. Dr. Reed began his career in Mendocino County, teaching citizenship classes and high school English in the Pacific Coast community of Fort Bragg, California, which was then a small, primarily logging town of Azoreans, Finns, Germans, Italians, the Pomo, and others.

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Let No One Enter was the July 2019 Book of the Month selection of The Blue Stockings Book Club of Mendocino County, California.

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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