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James Boswell / Writers
Great diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson.
James Hogg / Writers
Self-taught author who wrote the first psychological thriller.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir / Writers
Writer and statesman who invented the first 'James Bond' in a Scottish thriller.
Kenneth Grahame / Writers
Essayist, writer and Secretary of the Bank of England.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon / Writers
A prominent writer of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance.
Muriel Spark / Writers
A writer known for her satirical and witty novels.
Neil Miller Gunn / Writers
Sometimes mystical writer who was also a party to the formation of the Scottish National Party.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Writers
Imaginative novelist and essayist famed for Treasure Island.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Writers
Fiction writer who invented Sherlock Holmes.
Sir E.M. Compton Mackenzie / Writers
Popular and entertaining writer.
Sir James Matthew Barrie / Writers
The novelist and playwright who created Peter Pan, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
Sir Walter Scott / Writers
Novelist and poet who single-handedly created a Scottish sense of nationhood.
Thomas Carlyle / Writers
Major historian and essayist.
William Smellie / Writers
Scottish compiler of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica .
Ruaraidh Stuart Joseph Erskine / Writers
Left-wing nationalist and promoter of Gaelic culture.
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