Literary Library

Gilbert Adair

by Angela Beck
December 29, 1944 - December 8, 2011Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalistAuthor of "The Holy Innocents" (for which he won the Author'...
Author's Club First Novel Award Film Film Critic Films Journalism Journalist Novel Novelist Poem Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish

Alasdair Gray

by Angela Beck
December 28, 1934 - December 29, 2019Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, translator, historian and artistAuthor of "Lanark: A...
Art Artist Historian Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Saltire Society Book of the Year Scotland Scottish Short Story Translator Whitbread Novel Award

Liz Lochhead

by Angela Beck
December 26, 1947 - Scottish poet, playwright, translator, teacher and broadcasterAuthor of "Memo for Spring", "The Grimm Sisters" and "Mary Queen ...
Broadcaster National Poet of Scotland Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Poetry Queen's Gold Medal Scotland Scottish Teach Teacher Theater Theatre Translator

Samuel Smiles

by Angela Beck
December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904Scottish author, biographer, government reformer and newspaper editorAuthor of "Self-Help", "Lives of the Engine...
Author Bio Biographer Biography Editor Government News Newspaper Newspaper Editor Newspapers Scotland Scottish

Muriel Spark

by Angela Beck
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006Scottish novelist, essayist, short story writer and poetAuthor of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", "The Mandelba...
Booker Prize Essayist Essays Golden PEN Award James Tate Black Prize Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish Short Story

George MacDonald

by Angela Beck
December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905Scottish author, poet and Christian ministerAuthor of "At the Back of the North Wind", "The Princess and the...
Author Christian Minister Pastor Poem Poems Poet Poetry Preacher Scotland Scottish

Thomas Carlyle

by Angela Beck
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881Scottish historian, philosopher, mathematician, essayist and satiristAuthor of "Sartor Resartus", "The French R...
Essayist Essays Historian history Math Mathematician Mathematics Philosopher Philosophy Satire Satirist Scotland Scottish

Helen Adam

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1909 - September 19, 1993Scottish poet, collagist and photographerAuthor of "Turn Again to Me and Other Poems" (for which she won the A...
American Book Award Art Artist Arts Collage Photo Photographer Photography Photos Poem Poems Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish

Norman Alexander MacCaig

by Angela Beck
November 14, 1910 - January 23, 1996Scottish poet and teacherAuthor of "Rings on a Tree", "A Man In My Position" and "Tree of Strings"
Poem Poet Poetry Scotland Scottish Teacher

Robert Louis Stevenson

by Angela Beck
November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894Scottish novelist and travel writerAuthor of "Treasure Island", "A Child's Garden of Verses", "Kidnapped" and ...
Scotland Scottish Travel Travel Guide