 For the Central Arkansas Library System and Little Rock Public Radio, I'm Mark Crisp with an Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute. A once popular Arkansas novelist is scarcely remembered today. Opie Reed was born in Tennessee in 1852 and moved to Carlisle 24 years later. After creating an unsuccessful newspaper there, he moved to Little Rock and became the Arkansas Democrat city editor, a position he held until writing an unflattering piece on his publisher.