Michael Shane Reynolds (1937–2000) was Professor of English at North Carolina State University from 1965 to 1997.
[1] His main focus was the author Ernest Hemingway and his magnum opus was an extensive, five-volume biography:[2][3] Reynolds studied Hemingway in a meticulous way, cataloguing the details of his life.
His doctoral thesis at Duke University became his first book, Hemingway’s First War.
[4] Reynolds was the son of a geologist in Kansas City, Missouri.
His death at age 63 in Santa Fe, New Mexico was caused by pancreatic cancer.