- Birth nameGrant Harper Reid
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Grant Harper Reid is the author of the 2018 NAACP Black History Month Founders Day 5-Star Grand Prize Award-winning "Rhythm For Sale" a biography about his grandfather Theatre-Producer Leonard Harper and his latest book "Harlem Bible at Amazon.com. Grant's "Harlem Bible" rediscovers the History, Soul, and Spirit of Harlem through his eyes. "Rhythm For Sale" details the rise of Leonard Harper from a little Southern Medicine Show dancer who jigged for pennies and he becomes one of the greatest floor show and Colored Musical Comedy producers who ever lived.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Grant Harper Reid
- Grant Harper Reid has authored his third 5-Star book is titled The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College is about his troubled college years. Never in the history of memoir writing, has the author as the protagonist been so wrong and illogical yet been so right. This is Reid's third and newest most personal literary work. It's the true story of the author as a poor black teenager trying to acquire a college degree while at the same time attempting to become a man. This memoir details the author's wild five year journey towards his college degree. Within the pages of the book author Reid graduates to the top of his class by proving that he's become a master story teller. With impeccable comic timing and a mind-boggling aptitude for descriptive detail he utilizes his distinct literary voice. Readers hold on tight cause the writings funky. Every one of his obstacles and tightrope balancing adventures will have readers alarmed during his hazardous ordeals while at the same time spiraling out of their seats with laughter. It all takes place in the 1970s so if you want a politically, correct book don't bother.
He studies and gets down to the business of school work with the help of the film and history departments and the strong influence of his rock and roll teachers. Grant readies himself for a successful graduation. Leon Botstein is hired as Bard's President and he changes the trajectory of the college from a whore house on the Hudson to the esteemed higher educational institution that it is today. Eventually in his second year at Bard the author grounds himself and finally gets his footing.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Grant Harper Reid
- A proud sponsor of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington D.C., after having uncovered and donated his great-great grandfather Friday Hamilton's many Civil war records to the institution. Friday Hamilton is memorialized on Civil War Memorial's wall of honor.
- He did professional freelance work as a theatre reviewer for BET Entertainment Television-Magazine and has won the top Poet-Tree Award from Rolling Out/Black Arts Movement and his first ever painting was selected and featured in the Jeep Corporation's Motion Through Art Calendar-2002.
- He has also worked in many aspects of employment in the recording industry from album cover photographer to promotion man. Some of Grant's photographic works appear in the books; Electric Gypsy-Jimi Hendrix, The Illustrated Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix, Univibes. his album photographs appear on "Voodoo Soup", "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" and "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock".
- An avid history buff who was awarded a certificate of recognition from Ossie Davis for his studies and works at the Third World Cinema/National Academy of Television's Arts and Science training program.
- Author, Writer and Historian Grant Harper Reid is the 2018 NAACP Mid-Manhattan Black History Month Founders Day Award Winner for both of his 5-Star books, "Rhythm For Sale" & Harlem Bible-In The Beginning. He was honored for his years of research for "Rhythm For Sale", a biography about his grandfather Leonard Harper who was a Colored Theatrical producer-director-choreographer during the 1920's-1930's Harlem Renaissance era. His newest book "Harlem Bible" rediscovers the History, Soul, and Spirit of Harlem through the eyes of the Author. Presented by NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch President Geoffrey E. Eaton.
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