List of Scottish writers
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List of Scottish writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish writers. This list includes writers of all genres, writing in English, Scots, Gaelic, Latin, or any other language.
This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scots.
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[edit] A
- Thomas Aird, (1802-1876), poet
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, (c.1695-1770), poet
- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570-1640)
- Lin Anderson, crime writer
- Marion Angus
- Margot Asquith, writer and wit
- Sir Robert Ayton, (1570-1638), poet
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun, (1813-1865), poet, humourist and writer
[edit] B
- Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665-1746), song-writer
- RM Ballantyne (1825–1894), juvenile fiction writer, The Coral Island
- Iain Banks, (born 1954), a.k.a Iain M. Banks
- John Barbour, (1316-1395), poet
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), novelist and dramatist, creator of Peter Pan
- Alan Bissett (born 1975), novelist
- William Black (1841-1898)
- Robert Blair, (1699-1746), poet
- George Blake
- James Boswell, (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist
- James Bridie
- Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
- George Douglas Brown
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (1875-1940), novelist (The Thirty-Nine Steps)
- James Burnett, (1714-1799)
- Peter Burnett, (born 1967)
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
[edit] C
- Thomas Campbell
- Angus Peter Campbell, Gaelic novelist, columnist, poet
- Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881), essayist and historian
- Catherine Carswell
- William Cleland
- Joe Corrie
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett, (1860-1914), novelist
- AJ Cronin
- Helen Cruickshank
[edit] D
- Gavin Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930), novelist, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Andrew Drummond, novelist, author of An Abridged History and A Hand-book of Volapük
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), poet
- Jane Duncan
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
- Dorothy Dunnett, (1923-2001), novelist
[edit] F
- Simon Farquhar
- Robert Fergusson
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
- John Fleming
- Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716), political writer
[edit] G
- Janice Galloway, (born 1956), author of 'The Trick Is to Keep Breathing'
- John Galt
- Robert Garioch
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- William Glen (born 1789), poet
- Janey Godley
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
- W. S. Graham, neo-romantic poet
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1932)
- Elizabeth Grant
- Iain Grant
- Alasdair Gray, (born 1934), writer and artist
- Alexander Gray, (1882-1968), academic, propagandist, poet and translator
- Muriel Gray, (born 1959), author, broadcaster and businesswoman
- Andrew Greig, (born 1951), novelist, poet and writer on mountaineering
- Neil M Gunn, (1891-1973), novelist and essayist
[edit] H
- George Campbell Hay
- John MacDougall Hay
- Robert Henryson
- James Hogg, (1770-1835), novelist and poet
- John Home
- David Hume, (1711-1776)
- Mollie Hunter, (born 1922)
- Frances Mary Hendry. born 1941
[edit] J,K
- Violet Jacob
- Quintin Jardine
- Robert Keith, (1681-1757), Episcopal Bishop and historian
- James Kelman
- James Peebles Ewing Kennaway
- A. L. Kennedy
- Jessie Kesson
- Frank Kuppner, (born 1951)
[edit] L
- Andrew Lang, (1844-1912)
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, (1784-1848), writer
- David Lindsay, (1878-1945)
- Sir David Lindsay, (c.1490-c.1555)
- Douglas Lindsay, (born 1964)
- Eric Linklater
- John Gibson Lockhart
- William Laughton Lorimer, (1885-1967), translated the New Testament from Greek to Scots
[edit] Mac/Mc
- Stuart MacBride, crime writer
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Fionn MacColla
- Norman MacCaig, poet
- J. McCullough, golf author
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978), poet
- George Macdonald, (1824-1905), poet and novelist.
- William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, (1899-1970), writer, photographer and poet
- Kenneth McGuigan, Marxist theory, history
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a Duncan Ban McIntyre
- Martainn Mac an t-Saoir, Gaelic novelist
- John William Mackail, classical scholar and writer
- Helen Clark MacInnes, (1907-1985), suspense novelist
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
- Ken MacLeod
- Iain Finlay Macleod, Gaelic novelist
- Henry Mackenzie
- Ian Maclaren
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert McLellan
- James Macpherson, (1736-1796), poet and presenter of the "Ossian" poems
[edit] M
- Sir John Malcolm, (1769-1833), historian
- Gavin Maxwell
- Peter May (writer)
- Mark Millar, comic book writer
- Alison Miller
- Hugh Miller
- A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh
- Sir Edward Montague
- Edwin Morgan, (1920), foremost Scottish poet
- Edwin Muir, (1887-1959), novelist and poet
- Charles Murray
- Denise Mina (1966-), Crime writer
- Raman Mundair, playwright and poet, based in Glasgow
[edit] O
- Andrew O'Hagan, (born 1968), novelist and essayist
- Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 18th century composer and songwriter
- Margaret Oliphant
[edit] P
- Aileen Paterson, creator of Maisie from Morningside
[edit] R
- Allan Ramsay
- Ian Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus crime novels
[edit] S
- Alexander Scott
- Andrew Murray Scott, (born 1955), novelist[1]
- Michael Scott, (1789-1835), author
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), novelist and poet (Ivanhoe etc.)
- William Sharp, (1855-1905), poet and biographer
- Nan Shepherd
- Samuel Smiles, (1812-1904)
- Adam Smith, (1723-1790)
- Ali Smith, (1962-)
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771), novelist
- William Soutar
- Muriel Spark, (born 1918), novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), novelist, poet and travel writer (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island etc.)
- Mary Stewart
- Annie S Swan
[edit] T
- Robert Tannahill, 1774-1810), poet
- Alistair and Henrietta Taylor, historians
- Josephine Tey, (1896-1952), mystery writer
- Derick Thomson
- James Thomson
- James Thomson (B.V.)
- Jeff Torrington (born 1935), novelist
- Nigel Tranter (1909-2000), wrote over 100 books covering non-fiction (history, architecture, Scotland), children's books, and novels (historical, contemporary adventure and westerns)
- Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984), novelist and cultural activist
- Alexander Fraser Tytler, (1747-1813), lawyer and writer
- Patrick Fraser Tytler, (1791-1849), historian
[edit] U,V,W
- Sir Thomas Urquhart, (1611-1660), writer and translator
- Jürgen Vsych
- Maurice Walsh
- Alan Warner, (born 1964)
- Molly Weir, (1910-2004)
- Tom Weir, (1914-2006)
- Irvine Welsh, (born 1961), novelist (Trainspotting)
- John Wilson (Christopher North)
