William H. Reid is a national-award-winning author who has published 18 general reader, trade and academic books with large and small traditional presses. He now writes exclusively for general readers, including children. His last nonfiction work, A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings (Skyhorse), was featured in interviews on all major US and Canadian networks and in an episode of BBC Panorama. It earned excellent editorial & reader reviews and is very highly rated on Amazon and Goodreads.

Two "older" books, The Psychopath and his psychotherapy primer Basic Intensive Psychotherapy, have just been tapped as classic "revivals" for 2026 all-format re-release in the US, UK and worldwide by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.  

 

His current projects include the completed Augie & Frank (a novel spanning over half a century, from the Korean War to the present day), Clozapine: Out of Darkness (the real-life story of Big Pharma, the FDA and a controversial psychiatric drug, coauthored with Gil Honigfeld, PhD, former project manager at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals), Corkins Kids (an "early reader" children's series, currently five very short books for ages 4-9), The Boy and the Fishes (a historical novel set in the Middle East of 2000 years ago) and Lyrics (lyrics from the 1970s to the present day, most recorded on his various albums and singles).

When not writing, he’s a well-known forensic psychiatrist, a university professor and a musician whose Fewer Sorrows Band has released seven albums of blues, Americana and children’s songs. He lives with his wife and their labradoodle on a little creek in the Texas Hill Country and plays blues guitar in nursing homes & sleazy bars.

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