Novelist, born in Dounby, Orkney Is, NE Scotland, UK. He studied medicine and English at Aberdeen, served in World War 1, then became a journalist in Mumbai (19257), and an English lecturer at Aberdeen. While in the USA (192830) he wrote Poet's Pub (1929), the first of a series of satirical novels which include Juan in America (1931) and Private Angelo (1946). Later books include A Year of Space (1953) and Fanfare for a Tin Hat (1970), which are autobiographical.
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (March 8, 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.
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
Judas (1939) novel
The Wind on the Moon (1944)
Private Angelo (1946) novel
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Spell for Old Bones (1949) historical novel
The Pirates of the Deep Green Sea (1949)
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
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