Eric Linklater
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Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-November 7, 1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history.
He was born in Penarth, Wales, but was educated in Aberdeen. He was brought up principally in Orkney, and identified strongly with the islands.
He was initially a medical student and then went into journalism, becoming a full time writer in the 1930s.
He stood, unsuccessfully, in the East Fife by-election of 1933 as the National Party of Scotland candidate.
Eric's son, Magnus Linklater (born 1942) is a journalist and former editor of the ''The Scotsman.
Works
- White Maa's Saga (1929) novel
- The Devil's in the News (1929) play
- A Dragon Laughed & other poems (1930)
- Juan in America (1931)
- Magnus Merriman (1934)
- Juan in China
- Ripeness is All (1935)
- The Impregnable Women (1938) novel
- The Wind on the Moon (1944)
- Private Angelo (1946) novel
- A Spell for Old Bones (1949) historical novel
- Laxdale Hall (1951)
- Figures in a Landscape (1952)
- A Year of Space (1953) travel
- A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits (1957) stories
- A Man Over Forty (1963) novel
- A Terrible Freedom (1966) novel
- The Campaign in Italy
- The Highland Division
- The Goose Girl and Other Stories
- Poet's Pub
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