Scottish Writer
1. James Kelman (1946)
Scottish Writer
A Booker Prize-winning Scottish fiction writer, he is best known for his 1994 work, How Late it Was, How Late. His other works include A Disaffection (novel), The Good Times...
2. Alasdair Gray (1934)
Scottish Writer
Alasdair Gray is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It...
3. Andrew Greig (1951)
Scottish Writer
Andrew Greig is a Scottish writer. He grew up in Anstruther Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish...
4. Peter May (writer) (1951)
Scottish Writer
Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter best-selling novelist and crime writer.
5. Eric Linklater (1899)
Scottish Writer
Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories military history and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon a children's fantasy novel he...
6. David Wolstencroft (1969)
Scottish Writer
David Wolstencroft is an American-born British television writer and author. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks and its spin-off series Spooks: Code...
7. Kenneth White (1936)
Scottish Writer
Kenneth White is a Scottish poet academic and writer.
8. William Anderson (Scottish writer) (Unknow)
Scottish Writer
Anderson was a Scottish miscellaneous writer.
9. John Wellwood (1853)
Scottish Writer
John Wellwood was a poet writer biographer and Minister of the Church of Scotland. He was born at George Street Glasgow on 18 December 1853. His father was John Wellwood...
10. Brian Whittingham (Unknow)
Scottish Writer
Brian Whittingham is a Scottish writer editor and lecturer on creative writing.
11. George Whyte-Melville (1821)
Scottish Writer
George John Whyte-Melville was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet.
12. George Gilfillan (1813)
Scottish Writer
George Gilfillan was a Scottish author and poet. One of the spasmodic poets Gilfillan was also an editor and commentator with memoirs critical dissertations in many editions of earlier British...
13. Violet Jacob (1863)
Scottish Writer
Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer now known especially for her historical novel Flemington and her poetry mainly in Scots.
14. Ruthven Todd (1914)
Scottish Writer
Ruthven Campbell Todd was a Scottish poet artist and novelist best known as an editor of the works of William Blake and as a writer of children's books. He...
15. Thomas Urquhart (Unknow)
Scottish Writer
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a Scottish writer and translator most famous for his translation of Rabelais.
16. Robert Wedderburn (radical) (1762)
Scottish Writer
Born in Jamaica to an African-born house-slave and a plantation owner Robert Wedderburn was a Unitarian ultra-radical leader and anti-slavery advocate in early nineteenth-century London.
17. Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686)
Scottish Writer
Andrew Michael Ramsay commonly called the Chevalier Ramsay was a Scottish-born writer who lived most of his adult life in France. He was a Baronet in the Jacobite Peerage. Ramsay...
18. Louise Welsh (1965)
Scottish Writer
Louise Welsh is an author of short stories and psychological thrillers. She is based in Glasgow Scotland. Welsh studied History at Glasgow University and traded in second-hand books for several...
