I need a brief description of this author and his/her major areas of work

Hello.

From the University of Texas at Dallas:

Dr. Larry D. Terry, "a leading public affairs  expert and editor of
the prestigious scholarly journal Public Administration Review (PAR),"
is associate provost and professor of public administration The
University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Terry is the former assistant dean for graduate programs and
professor of public administration in the Maxine Goodman College of
Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.

"Terry won the American Society for Public Administration’s 2000
Presidential Citation of Merit Award for his leadership of Public
Administration Review. He also was given the Conference of Minority
Public Administrators Citation of Merit Award for his contributions to
the field of public administration..."

"Terry received his Master of Science degree from the University of
Missouri-Columbia and his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University. He is the author of The Leadership of Public
Bureaucracies: The Administrator As Conservator  (Thousand Oaks, Ca.:
Sage Publications, 1995), as well as numerous articles in scholarly
journals."
Source: University of Texas at Dallas archived news
http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/news/archived/lterry.htm

Also see an older biography from Cleveland State University's web
site, cached by Google:
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:k4QG6B4on38C:urban.csuohio.edu/faculty/terry.htm+terry+larry&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet

search strategy: "larry d terry"

I hope this helps.

Perfect.