High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys` fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the second half of the 20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic`s. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy`s Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family`s business, Reed became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a classic History of the Old English Letter Foundries.