Eric Linklater

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Eric Robert Russell Linklater (March 8, 1899-November 7, 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history.

He was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, 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.

[edit] Locations

Hill of Fearn

[edit] 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)
The Men of Ness (1932) - novel
Magnus Merriman (1934)
Juan in China
Ripeness is All (1935)
The Impregnable Women (1938) - novel
Judas (1939) novel
The Wind on the Moon (1944) - children's novel
Private Angelo (1946) - novel
A Spell for Old Bones (1949) - historical novel
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949) - children's novel
Laxdale Hall (1951)
Figures in a Landscape (1952)
A Year of Space (1953) travel
The Dark of Summer (1956) World War II - novel featuring espionage in the Faroe Islands
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