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Author Description Alastair Reid was a Scottish poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He joined the staff of <i>The New Yorker</i> in 1959 and translated works by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4026.Pablo_Neruda" title="Pablo Neruda" rel="nofollow noopener">Pablo Neruda</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/500.Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges" rel="nofollow noopener">Jorge Luis Borges</a>. Although he was known for translations, his own poems gained notice during his lifetime. He had lived in Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Morocco, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and in the United States.<br /><br />Among his many books for children are <i>A Balloon for a Blunderbuss</i>, <i>I Keep Changing</i>, and <i>Millionaires</i> (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, <i>Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations</i> and <i>Outside In: Selected Prose</i>.

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