Let No One Enter: A Novel about Fort Bragg in the 1930s
Let No One Enter, published posthumously, was written by Dr. Glenn A. Reed.
“Glenn A. Reed could definitely write. His story had a strong sense of time and place, and I felt drawn into it. I was sorry to see Let No One Enter end, I enjoyed it that much! The whole book was a class act—typography, illustrations, the entire presentation, the afterword, and a notable absence of errors. The publication of this posthumous novel is a magnificent tribute to Dr. Reed.”
—Steven Linberg
Reed was born July 23, 1910 in Fowler, California, near Fresno, then grew up in Southern California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1934 from Stanford University, where he majored in English and was a member of the tennis team.
He taught high school in Fort Bragg, California from 1935 to 1937. In 1937 he earned his master’s degree from Stanford, then returned to Southern California, where he taught English composition at Pasadena Junior College from 1937-1941. From 1941-1944 he was a military correspondent for the Army Training Program, also at Pasadena Junior College. In 1944 he was a field director for the American Red Cross at Hamilton Field, north of San Francisco.
In the fall of 1946, he began teaching English at San Jose State College (later University). In 1950 he obtained his PhD from Stanford and continued teaching at San Jose State, where he became head of the department. He taught English literature there until 1974, when he retired from SJSU as professor emeritus.
Above image © San Jose State University
Dr. Reed’s work was published in American Literature, American Quarterly, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, and other academic journals.
He retired to Saratoga, California with his wife, Ruth, who died in 2000. His death was in 2002, at the age of 92.
Read a note from the publisher of Let No One Enter.