{"id":31753,"date":"2017-02-09T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=31753"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:59:42","slug":"ken-yoder-reed-66-brings-third-historical-novel-writers-read-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/ken-yoder-reed-66-brings-third-historical-novel-writers-read-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Yoder Reed &#8217;66 brings his third historical novel to Writers Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historical novelist Ken Yoder Reed \u201966 will return to Eastern Mennonite University Thursday, Feb. 16, for a Writers Read event at Common Grounds coffeehouse at 6:30 p.m. The event is open to the public. A freewill donation will be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, who lives in San Jose, California, recently published his third novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masthof.com\/\"><em>Both My Sons<\/em><\/a> (Masthof Press, 2016). He has also written <em>Mennonite Soldier <\/em>and <em>He Flew Too High.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Both My Sons<\/em> tells the story of Klaus Greenywalt, a Swiss-German immigrant to Lebanon County, around the year 1755. Faced with a number of personal struggles, his issues become magnified by the outbreak of the French and Indian War.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2016, he returned to Pennsylvania to lead an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masthof.com\/blogs\/tour-blog\/both-my-sons-bus-tour\">historic tour<\/a> of sites portrayed in <em>Both My Sons<\/em>. Although the central character in the novel is a \u201ccomposite of several Pennsylvania pioneers,\u201d Reed informed potential tour-goers, the main events and places in the novel are real, including Benjamin Franklin, \u201cFighting Parson\u201d John Elder, and John Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The novel has been favorably reviewed by John Landis Ruth, Carolyn Wenger of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmhs.org\/\">Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society<\/a>, Commander Chuck Faust of the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Colonial Re-enacters, and bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good.<\/p>\n<p>Reed comes from a Mennonite background in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. He attended Mennonite schools, including Lancaster Mennonite High School. At Eastern Mennonite College, he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English literature. He also attended the Japanese Language Institute in Sapporo, Japan, and completed alternative service as an English teacher there.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been a freelancer for Mennonite publications in Lancaster. In 1991, Reed made the move to San Francisco where he founded an international business of high-tech firms. 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