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Edition 2 (1947) Winner
Alexander Wyclif Reed
アレクサンダー・ワイクリフ・リード
Arekusandā Waikurifu Rīdo
Aliases:
Clif Reed / A. W. Reed
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1908-03-07 （Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand）
- Died
- 1979-10-19 （Wellington, New Zealand） age 71
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Auckland, New Zealand → Wellington, New Zealand
Career
- Occupations
- Publisher, Author
- Active Years
- 1908-1979
- Affiliations
- A. H. & A. W. Reed, Reed Publishing
- Influenced By
- Alfred Hamish Reed
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Place Names of New Zealand
1975 ToponymyA book explaining the origins and meanings of New Zealand place names.
Place namesMāori culture
Aboriginal Place Names and Their Meanings
1967 ToponymyA compilation of meanings of Aboriginal Australian place names.
Aboriginal culturePlace names
Reed Book of Māori Mythology
2004 MythologyA collection of Māori myths and legends.
Māori mythology
Bibliography
- Reed's Bible Story Atlas (1951)
- Books are My Business: The Life of a Publisher (1966)
- Aboriginal Place Names and Their Meanings (1967)
- Place Names of Australia (1973)
- Place Names of New Zealand (1975)
- The Concise Maori Handbook (1978)
- Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables (1993)
- The Reed Dictionary of Māori Place Names (1996)
- The Reed Book of Māori Proverbs (1999)
- Reed Book of Māori Mythology (2004)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Simplifying and popularising secondary sourcesAccessible prose for commercial success
- Recurring Motifs
- Māori cultureAboriginal culturePlace names and myths
Legacy
A prominent New Zealand publisher and author of over 200 books, known for popularizing Māori and Australian Aboriginal cultures, myths, language, and place names.
Trivia
- Co-founded A. H. & A. W. Reed publishing house with his uncle Alfred Hamish Reed.
- Not a scholar but wrote commercially successful books by simplifying secondary sources on Māori and Aboriginal topics.