Forrest Reid

Born in Belfast on June 24, 1875, he spent most of his life in Northern Ireland, apart from his years at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied medieval and modern languages. He went on to build a distinctive literary career as a novelist, critic, and translator.

His work is especially remembered for its lyrical, reflective treatment of boyhood, memory, and inner life. Reference works describe him as one of the notable Ulster novelists of his time, and Young Tom brought him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1944.

He died in Warrenpoint, County Down, on January 4, 1947. Today he is often remembered both for the unusual emotional delicacy of his fiction and for the quiet but lasting place he holds in Irish literary history.