Forrest Reid

Forrest Reid
Born(1875-06-24)24 June 1875
Belfast
Died4 January 1947(1947-01-04) (aged 71)
Warrenpoint, County Down
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Years active1904-1944
Notable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize (1944)

Forrest Reid (24 June 1875, Belfast, Ireland – 4 January 1947, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Young Tom.

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