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The Gateway to Scottish Authors is an online version of the Scottish Library Association publication Discovering Scottish Writers.

It contains biographies of 79 Scottish authors included in the original publication, with appropriate hyperlinked cross-references.

Search Scotland's Culture for the author's name to find other digital resources by or about the author.

The timeline arranges authors in chronological order of year of birth.

  • Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair
  • William Alexander
  • Marion Angus
  • RM Ballantyne
  • John Barbour
  • Sir JM Barrie
  • George Blake
  • James Boswell
  • James Bridie
  • George Douglas Brown
  • John Buchan
  • Robert Burns
  • Lord Byron
  • Thomas Campbell
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Catherine Carswell
  • Joe Corrie
  • SR Crockett
  • AJ Cronin
  • Helen Cruickshank
  • Gavin Douglas
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • William Drummond
  • William Dunbar
  • Jane Duncan
  • Robert Fergusson
  • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
  • John Galt
  • Robert Garioch
  • Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
  • Kenneth Grahame
  • Elizabeth Grant
  • Neil M Gunn
  • John MacDougall Hay
  • Robert Henryson
  • James Hogg
  • John Home
  • Violet Jacob
  • James Peebles Ewing Kennaway
  • Jessie Kesson
  • Andrew Lang
  • David Lindsay
  • Sir David Lindsay
  • Eric Linklater
  • John Gibson Lockhart
  • Fionn Mac Colla
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
  • George MacDonald
  • Duncan Ban Macintyre
  • Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie
  • Henry Mackenzie
  • Ian Maclaren
  • Alistair MacLean
  • Robert McLellan
  • James Macpherson
  • Gavin Maxwell
  • Hugh Miller
  • Edwin Muir
  • Neil Munro
  • Charles Murray
  • Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
  • Margaret Oliphant
  • Allan Ramsay
  • Alexander Scott
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • William Sharp
  • Nan Shepherd
  • Sydney Goodsir Smith
  • Tobias George Smollett
  • William Soutar
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Annie S Swan
  • Robert Tannahill
  • James Thomson
  • James Thomson ("B.V.")
  • Sir Thomas Urquhart
  • Maurice Walsh
  • John Wilson ("Christopher North")

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