J. Y. T. Greig

John Young Thomson Greig (1891–1963) was a British literary scholar and award-winning biographer, best known for his 1931 biography of David Hume, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for editing Hume's letters in 1932. Neglected Books, The Great Thinkers. He also authored a well-regarded 1950 biography of W. M. Thackeray and works like The Psychology of Laughter and Comedy, alongside four novels under the pseudonym John Carruthers. Spectator Archive.