William H. Reid has published 17 general reader, trade and academic books with large and small traditional presses. He now writes exclusively for general readers. 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.

His current projects include Augie & Frank (a novel spanning over half a century, from the Korean War to the present day), The Best Medicine in the World (the real-life story of Big Pharma, the FDA and a controversial psychiatric drug, coauthored with Gil Honigfeld, PhD, former project manager for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals), Corkins Kids (an "early reader" children's series, currently five books for ages 4-9) and The Boy and the Fishes (a historical novel set in the Middle East of 2000 years ago).

When not writing, he’s a 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 sleazy bars.