Byron Herbert Reece (September 14, 1917 – June 3, 1958) was an American author of poetry and novels.
During his life, he published four volumes of poetry and two volumes of fiction.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 1952.Reece wrote the words of his legacy in four lines:
From chips and shards, in idle times,
I made these stories, shaped these rhymes;
May they engage some friendly tongue
When I am past the reach of song.