William Maxwell Reed
William Maxwell Reed, a.k.a. W. Maxwell Reed, was a pioneering U.S. author of illustrated science books for children.
After schooling at Harvard, he taught astronomy at Harvard and Princeton University.
Reed later went into the steel industry.
Beginning as a series of letters to his nephew, his first book, The Earth for Sam, was published in 1929. The book remains popular and was republished in 2005.
Earth was followed by a series of popular children's information books, many published by Harcourt, Brace.Books
