Favorite Books
Devil and the White City; Bible; The Fountainhead; Martin Luther King Jr., On Leadership; A Confederacy of Dunces; Kite Runner; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Left to Tell; A Thousand Splendid Suns; The Other Side of the River; Things Fall Apart; and Pride and Prejudice, The Troublesome Presence - American Democracy and the Negro, The Mis-Education of the Negro, The Hip Hop Generation
What I'm Reading
Bones by Jonathan Kellerman
Favorite Authors
Henrik Ibsen, Stieg Larsson, John Kennedy Toole, Chinua, Ayn Rand, Jane Austen, August Wilson, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, and Jorge Borges, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes,and Toni Morrison
Influences
Toni Morrison, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Henrik Ibsen, Lorraine Hansberry, Ed Bullins, August Wilson, and Ayn Rand, Douglas Turner Ward and my former theater teacher Dr. Ted Gillian.
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.
And we stand on the top of the mountain
Free from within ourselves.
”
—Langston Hughes
About Sandra
SANDRA M. REED is a veteran teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. She earned her Bachelor's degree in English and Drama Education from Dillard University in Louisiana and has taken graduate courses at the University of Illinois, De Paul University and...
Sandra’s Favorite Books
Devil and the White City; Bible; The Fountainhead; Martin Luther King Jr., On Leadership; A Confederacy of Dunces; Kite Runner; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...