Author Profile

John Reed

John Shelton Reed retired in 2000 as William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, where he was director of the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science for twelve years and helped to found the Center for the Study of the American South. He was founding co-editor of the quarterly Southern Cultures and served recently as Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His most recent book is Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (LSU Press).