author
Louis Custer Martin Reed
b. 1879
A little-known early 20th-century writer, best remembered for a humorous take on office life and business culture. His surviving work offers a satirical glimpse of how American workplaces looked and sounded a century ago.
1 Audiobook
Dumbells of Business
by Louis Custer Martin Reed
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable book and library records during this search. Catalog and public-domain listings identify him as Louis Custer Martin Reed, born in 1879, and credit him as the author of Dumbells of Business, published in 1922.
That book is a collection of comic business sketches, presenting office characters and workplace habits with a sharp, playful tone. Because so little else is readily documented in the sources reviewed, he remains a fairly obscure figure today, known mainly through this surviving public-domain title and its portrait of American business culture in the early twentieth century.