Tom Holliday

In the novel Absent in the Spring, Tom Holliday is the former husband of Blanche Haggard and the father of her children. He wanted to be a writer and left his employment at an insurance company. He started writing a biography on Warren Hastings, and later one on Benjamin Franklin. He never finished any of them and had to return to a regular office work.

Blanche left him and the children when she met Johnnie Pelham. Despite of this they remained on friendly terms. He later remarried.