Author Description

John Oliver Reed was born in South London. He won scholarships to Bancroft's School and then to Magdalen College, Oxford. He was appointed lecturer in the English department at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (later, the University of Zimbabwe) in the late 1950s and early 1960s; then Professor and Head of English at the University of Zambia from 1965 and into the 1970s. He taught English language and literature at Fukuoka University in Japan in the 1980s. He returned to the University of Zimbabwe in his retirement as professor to teach linguistics in the mid-1990s. With his.