Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014 (Autor Personal)

Author's To lighten my house, 1953.

Contemporary authors on GaleNet, Sept. 29, 2004 (Alastair Reid; b. Mar. 22, 1926, Whithorn, Scotland)

New York times (online), viewed Sept. 26, 2014 (in obituary published Sept. 25: Alastair Reid; b. Mar. 22, 1926, Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland (he had a middle name at birth, his wife said, though she would not divulge it, saying that at some point he had rid himself of it legally); d. Sunday [Sept. 21, 2014], Manhattan, aged 88; Scottish-born, insistently peripatetic poet, translator, and essayist who wrote of far-flung places (among other things) for The New Yorker over more than half a century; lived, often not for very long, in a variety of places--Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and England among them--before settling in Greenwich Village for the last decades of his life)

Poirot, Luis. Pablo Neruda, ©1990: t.p. (translations by Alastair Reid)