Alastair Reid (b. 1926) Curiosity LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Alastair Reid (b. 1926) Born in Scotland, son of a minister, Reid graduated with honors from St. Andrews University after serving in the Royal Navy. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College (1951–1955) and, after his appointment as staff writer at the New Yorker in 1959, occasionally enjoyed visiting professorships across the United States and in England, teaching Latin American studies and literature. Acclaimed for his light, engaging style, Reid has been enthusiastically received as a poet, translator, essayist, and author of children's books, moving between genres as easily as he has moved between countries. Reid has lived in Spain, Latin America, Greece, and Morocco (to name a few places) and rejects the label "Scottish" writer. His deliberate rootlessness shows in his poetry, which is characterized by, in one critic's words, "natural irregularity."