List of Scottish writers

• Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair
• William Alexander
• Marion Angus
• Margot Asquith, writer and wit
• RM Ballantyne
• Iain Banks, (born 1954), a.k.a Iain M. Banks
• John Barbour
• Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), creator of Peter Pan
• William Black (1841-1898)
• George Blake
• James Boswell, (1740-1795)
• James Bridie
• Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
• George Douglas Brown
• John Buchan, (1875-1940)
• Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
• Lord Byron
• Thomas Campbell
• Thomas Carlyle
• Catherine Carswell
• Joe Corrie
• SR Crockett
• AJ Cronin
• Helen Cruickshank
• Gavin Douglas
• Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)
• William Drummond of Hawthornden
• William Dunbar
• Jane Duncan
• Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
• Robert Fergusson
• Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
• John Galt
• Robert Garioch
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
• Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1932)
• Elizabeth Grant
• Alasdair Gray, (born 1934)
• Neil M Gunn
• John MacDougall Hay
• Robert Henryson
• James Hogg
• John Home
• Violet Jacob
• James Peebles Ewing Kennaway
• Jessie Kesson
• Andrew Lang, (1844-1912)
• David Lindsay
• Sir David Lindsay
• Eric Linklater
• John Gibson Lockhart
• Fionn Mac Colla
• Norman MacCaig, poet
• Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978), poet
• George Macdonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
• William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
• Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a Duncan Ban McIntyre
• John Mackail, classical scholar and writer
• Compton Mackenzie
• Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
• Ken MacLeod
• Henry Mackenzie
• Ian Maclaren
• Alistair MacLean
• Robert McLellan
• James Macpherson
• Gavin Maxwell
• Hugh Miller
• A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh
• Sir Edward Montague
• Edwin Morgan, (1920), foremost Scottish poet
• Edwin Muir
• Neil Munro
• Charles Murray
• Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 18th century composer and songwriter
• Margaret Oliphant
• Allan Ramsay
• Ian Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus crime novels
• Alexander Scott
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832)
• William Sharp
• Nan Shepherd
• Sydney Goodsir Smith
• Tobias Smollett
• William Soutar
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
• Mary Stewart
• Annie S Swan
• Robert Tannahill
• James Thomson
• James Thomson (B.V.)
• Sir Thomas Urquhart
• Maurice Walsh
• Irvine Welsh
• John Wilson (Christopher North)

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