Victor Stafford Reid, OJ, (1 May 1913 – 25 August 1987) was a Jamaican writer born in Kingston, Jamaica, who wrote to influence younger generations to embrace local history.

"[1] Reid was one of a handful of writers to emerge from the new literary and nationalist movement that seized Jamaican sentiment in the period of the late 1930s.

In the address, Reid contended that the collective discontent of the working class majority was the public assertion of a "new brand of loyalty" that situated itself not only beyond, but more importantly, in direct resistance to imperial rule.

He held several posts in the Jamaican government, including Chairman of the Jamaica National Trust Commission, and was a Trustee of the Historic Foundation Research Centre in Kingston.

Reid found it difficult to get it published, as his manuscript was written in a different type of language, Creole; he had decided to introduce patois in order to familiarize young Jamaicans with black history as well as to instill pride in their heritage.

Just after New Day, Reid published a novel he had written for young people entitled Sixty-Five, which also portrays the Morant Bay Rebellion, but "in an easier gentler sort of way.

After publishing his first few novels, he decided to shift from literary works on specific events to focus on educating the younger generation in Jamaica.

"[1] Along with his Sixty-Five, Reid also wrote a number of novels for school children including The Young Warriors (1967), which deals with runaway slaves (known as maroons).

It commemorates the life of Juan de Bolas, one of the early leaders of the Jamaican Maroons during the English and Spanish quest for supremacy in Jamaica in the mid-17th century.

Nanny Town (1983) was Reid's last published novel and portrays Jamaica's original Queen Mother who led the Jamaican Maroons to independence from the English.

Through his writing, Reid wanted to break apart the "distortions of history" [1] portrayed by the foreign press, which described Jamaican radicals as criminals.