Undiscovered Scotland Biography: Writers

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Writers

Adomnán of Iona (Abbot)Sir William Alexander (Nova Scotia)Robert Allan (Songwriter)Margot Asquith (PM's Wife)Lady Grisell Baillie (Poet)John Barbour (Ecclesiastic)Alfred Barnard (Whisky Writer) J.M. Barrie (Writer)Eric Temple Bell (Mathematician)Horatius Bonar (Clergyman)Alastair Borthwick (Mountaineer)James Boswell (Samuel Johnson)Walter Bower (Historian)The Brahan Seer (Seer)Dugald Buchanan (Poet)Gilbert Burnet (Historian)John Buchan, 1st Tweedsmuir Robert Burns (Poet)George Byron, 6th Baron (Poet)

Catherine Carswell (Novelist)William Chambers (Publisher)A.J. Cronin (Novelist)Helen Cruickshank (Poet)Daniel Defoe (Writer)Gavin Douglas (Ecclesiastic)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Writer)Jane Duncan (Novelist)Dorothy Dunnett (Novelist)Robert Fergusson (Poet)Susan Ferrier (Novelist)David Hay Fleming (Historian)John of Fordun (Historian)G. MacDonald Fraser (Novelist)Robert Gordon of Straloch Seton Gordon (Writer)

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author)Neil M. Gunn (Author)James Hogg (Writer)Isabel Hutchison (Explorer) Sir William Jardine (Naturalist) Violet Jacob (Writer)Samuel Johnson (Writer)Jessie Kesson (Playwright)Andrew Lang (Historian)Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (Witer)Eric Linklater (Novelist)Helen Nora Low (Screenwriter)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Poet)Alexander MacDonald (Poet)George MacDonald (Author)Mary Macdonald (Poet)Agnes Mackenzie (Historian)Compton Mackenzie (Author)Henry Mackenzie (Novelist)David MacGibbon (Architect)William MacGillivray (Naturalist)William McGonagall (Poet)Helen MacInnes (Novelist)Alistair MacLean (Novelist)Sorley MacLean (Poet)Robert McLellan (Dramatist)James Macpherson (Ossian)Martin Martin (Writer)Gavin Maxwell (Writer) Elizabeth Melville (Writer)Hugh Miller (Geologist)William Miller (Poet)Edwin Muir (Poet)John Muir (Environmentalist)Neil Munro (Writer)

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