Forrest Reid: 1875-1946

Forrest Reid was born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. The author of some sixteen novels, his first published work was The Kingdom of Twilight (1904), and others include The Garden God (1905; republished 2007), At the Door of the Gate (1915), and Peter Waring (1937). Uncle Stephen (1931) was the first of a trilogy of novels about Tom Barber, generally regarded as his best-known works; the subsequent volumes were The Retreat (1936) and Young Tom (1944). Forrest also published translations of Greek poetry and a collection of short fiction, as well as two volumes of autobiography, Apostate (1926), and Private Road (1940).

Recent books:

The Garden God (Valancourt Books: 2007)