J.D. Reid

Doug spends his summers revelling in the beautiful isolation of Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada, while overwintering in the equal paradise of Maui.

His interests encompass physics, mathematics, music, art, literature, astronomy, paleontology, anthropology, entomology, geology, and even religion—but he finds the human mind and heart the most interesting and perplexing of all.

He has English roots, some Scottish peat in his blood, and even a twist of the Irish. (His hands are twisted with Dupuytren's Contracture, which means he has to peck away for each novel he writes.) In the meantime, his goal in life is to write the best novels he can. He is otherwise known as j. d. Reid (The Girl on the Ferry and the novella Ashleigh's Dilemma), and John Talisker (Gatc'hh'en's Rite and I, Arrallen), and in the realm of magical realism, the highly popular novel Heather.