Barry Pain was an English journalist, poet, humourist, and author. Barry Pain was born in Cambridge and attended both Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College. He became an important contributor to The Granta. He was recognized for writing parodies and moderately humorous pieces. James Payn, the editor of Cornhill Magazine, published his story "The Hundred Gates" in 1889, and Pain soon became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as the Daily Chronicle and Black and White. Pain, it is said, "owes his distxtery to Robert Louis Stevenson, who compares him to De Maupassant". From 1896 until 1928, he was a regular contributor to The Windsor Magazine. He died in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and was buried in the Bushey churchyard.