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Robert Reed was born John Robert Rietz in Highland Park, Illinois, on October 19, 1932. When Robert was six his family moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma. Robert and his family were solid Midwesterners, raising cattle and turkeys. Robert had many hobbies in highschool, he played on a basketball team, he was on a debating program, but his favorite was the drama club. At age seventeen while still attending Central High School in Muskogee he was writing and producing for local radio stations KMUS and KBX, and even worked as an announcer.
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Robert Reed (1914-2005) was an Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran, born in Rodney, Texas, who spent much of his later life in the Seattle area. Prior to his Spanish civil war service, Reed had worked as a tenant farm organizer with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. After returning from Spain he served in the U.S Army during World War II, and after the War was a Communist Party activist in Detroit. He eventually earned a Masters in Social Work at the University of Washington, following which he directed a service center for residents of a low-income housing community. Throughout his life, Reed participated in a great many progressive political organizations and campaigns: he was especially active in opposing U.S interventions in Central America throughout the 1980s.
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In addition to his 2007 win, Robert Reed has had six other stories nominated for the Hugo Award. For Best Short Story: "The Utility Man" (in 1991), "Decency" (1997), "Whiptail" (1999), and "Eight Episodes" (2007). For Best Best Novelette: "Hexagons" (2004). For Best Novella: "Marrow" (1998).
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Robert Reed was gold-prize winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest in 1986 for his story ''Mudpuppies'' (under the pen-name Robert Touzalin). His first two novels, The Leeshore and The Hormone Jungle, both appeared in 1987, followed by Black Milk (1990), Down the Bright Way (1991), The Remarkables (1992), Beyond the Veil of Stars (1994), An Exaltation of Larks (1995), and Beneath the Gated Sky (1997). He's ... a prolific writer of short fiction, including the recent "Marrow", one of Locus's selections for the top ten stories of 1997.
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Artists, Susan and Robert Reed have been creating their handcrafted artistic jewelry together for over thirty years. Susan, the principal designer, hand sculpts the unique designs in bees wax, and their distinctive style is easily recognized by the actual impressions from nature. Among them you will find beautiful dragonfly patterns, insect wings, sea life and bird feathers. Robert takes Susan’s handmade design and casts it in precious metals, then sets the stones to produce a spectacular, one-of-kind finished piece of jewelry.
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Robert Reed, the actor who played Mike Brady, has been excised from all new Brady Bunch memoribilia. The Washington Post investigates the story and is stonewalled by the studio, and so speculates that this comes down to the fact that Reed was gay and died of AIDS, and hence has been expurgated, Trotsky-style, from the official Stalinist Brady brand. but gets the real story from the managers of Reed's estate -- they've chosen to remember the actor in other ways.
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