“Seeking Hyde” Author Reading

Author and Professor of English at Dickinson College, Thomas Reed, presents his debut novel, SEEKING HYDE.

Thomas Reed’s debut novel, SEEKING HYDE, recounts the fascinating history of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic horror story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is the tale of a young author defying his father’s wishes by becoming a spinner of romantic yarns. It is the tale of his American wife, ten years older than he, driving her husband hard to write one more great novel before his chronic lung disease carries him away. It is the tale of Stevenson reeling under charges from the mother of an old friend that he had fueled her son’s fatal alcoholism through his recklessly Bohemian ways. SEEKING HYDE sticks closely to the biographical record as Robert Louis Stevenson struggles to write another book to be the successor to Treasure Island.