| LC control no. | n 79085083 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6035.E4 |
| Personal name heading | Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014 |
| Located | Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1926-03-22 |
| Death date | 2014-09-21 |
| Place of birth | Whithorn (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Translators Essayists |
| Found in | 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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