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Grant Harper Reid later graduated from Bard College with a Degree in the Arts studying editing at Beatle John Lennon's apartment. After graduating from Bard College, he studied with the National Academy and Television Arts and Sciences in conjunction with actor Ossie Davis' New Cinema Artists Institute. Grant has labored primarily on major motion pictures, music videos, television productions, and commercials for connections and paychecks, not as a career.
Rhythm For Sale tells the story of Leonard Harper’s rise from a tiny Southern Medicine Show dancer who jigged for pennies to becoming one of the greatest floor-show and Colored Musical Comedy producers who ever lived. Reid now shares all that he has learned in his Grand Prize 5-Star Award-Winning biography Rhythm For Sale. In 2018 Grant received the NAACP Black History Month Founders Day Award for "Rhythm For Sale."
Grant's second book Harlem Bible rediscovers the History, Soul, and Spirit of Harlem through the author’s eyes. Harlem Bible is about a black kid growing up in Harlem and the suburbs of Teaneck, N.J., and due to troubling circumstances, is forced to become a man. Reid's black books are unlike many of the other Negro books full of racial pomposity where the authors are constantly trying to prove to white people that we are equal to them.
Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
In the spirit of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Grant Harper Reid’s Harlem Bible: In the Beginning is a memorable offering that helps readers rediscover the soul and spirit of black culture in Harlem. In this spellbinding autobiography, the author relives wonderful and touching memories of his childhood, growing up as a black man in Harlem. The author explores the dreams of black families, poised for the revolution — perhaps gentle like the wind — that was a promise of an upward movement in the American economic status. Readers are introduced to the shift in culture, thanks to the advent of gentrified folk. But what was Harlem like among the black community? This book answers that question and offers more.
Harlem Bible: In the Beginning is a wonderful book, a well-crafted memoir that explores the dynamics of black culture in Harlem and redefines the very soul and spirit of the “black man” within a well-defined historical context. The writing is beautiful, laced with arresting images and, I must say, Grant Harper Reid has a phraseology that gives a unique signature to his writings. The language is fluid and laced with humor and symbolism. For instance, just few lines into the narrative, he describes his usual visits, accompanied by his dad, to the house of one wealthy man: “Whenever my dad and I went to visit Mr. Llewellyn, he'd be either wearing a smoking jacket or a bathrobe on his balcony deck. If that wasn't dressing for success, I don't know what is.” The reader finds themselves smiling quite often as they read through the gripping and enjoyable narrative, the cultural and social commentaries opening a whole new world for the reader to navigate.
