Victor Stafford 'Vic" Reid

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

‘My aim is to transfer to paper some of the beauty, kindliness and humour of my people’

- The 100th Birthday Victor Stafford 'Vic" Reid, born 1 May 1913.

Seminal Jamaican writer born in Kingston. He was the author of several novels, one play, and several short stories, and the editor of Public Opinion. His first novel New Day (1949) was "the first West Indian novel to be written throughout in a dialect form". He was one of a handful of writers to emerge from the new literary and nationalist movement in the late 1930s. A common objective among this new generation was an inclination to "break away from Victorianism and to associate with the Jamaican independence movement." His other works include The Leopard (1958), Sixty-Five (1960), The Young Warriors (1967), Peter of Mount Ephraim (1971), The Jamaicans (1976), Nanny Town (1983), and The Horses of the Morning (1985).