 Her next book, published in 1982, was a biography of the mathematical statistician Jerzy Neyman, who like Courant had emigrated to the United States and built a new career there.An attempt to write a biography of Eric Temple Bell proved unexpectedly difficult, as he had been very secretive about his early life.Reid discovered that Bell, a native of Scotland, as a young man had spent twelve years in the United States but had never revealed this to his wife or his son.