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Robert Michael Ballantyne 1825 - 1894
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Rome
Novelist

• 1855 - "The Young Fur Traders", "Snowflakes and Sunbeams"
• 1858 - "The Coral Island"

John Barbour 1325 - 1395
Born in Aberdeen. Died in Aberdeen.
Author and Poet

• 1376 - "The Actes and Life of the Most Victorious Conqueror, Robert Bruce, King of Scotland" - an epic in 20 books
  Also credited with:-
• "Stewartis Oryginalle" - a genealogy of the Scottish Kings
• "The Bulk of Alexander" - translated from the French
• "Legends of the Saints" - written in verse form

Sir James Matthew Barrie 1860 - 1937
Born in Kirriemuir. Died in London
Novelist and Dramatist

• 1888 - "Auld Licht Idylls" - a novel
• 1891 - "The Little Minister" - a novel
• 1896 - "Margaret Ogilvy" and "Sentimental Tommy" - both novels
• 1902 - "The Little White Bird" and "The Admirable Chrichton" - a play
• 1904 - "Peter Pan" - a play
• 1910 - "The Twelve Pound Look" - a play
• 1913 - "The Will" - a play
• 1917 - "Dear Brutus" - considered his best play

Robert Blair 1699 - 1746
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Athelstaneford, East Lothian
Poet

• 1743 - "The Grave" - a poem written in blank verse, believed to have influenced Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" 1751

George Blake 1893-1961
Born in Greenock. Died in Glasgow
Novelist

• 1935 - "The Shipbuilders"
• 1937 - "Down to the Sea" - semi-autobiographical

James Boswell 1740-1795
Born in Edinburgh. Died in London
Novelist, Diarist, Journalist, Biographer

• 1768 - "An Account of Corsica", "The Journal of a Tour to that Island", "Memoirs of Pascal Paoli"
• 1791 - "Life of Johnson" 2 volumes
• 1928-1934 - "Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle" 18 volumes - published posthumously

James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) 1888-1951
Born in Glasgow. Died in Edinburgh
Playwright

• 1928 - "The Sunlight Sonata" - written under the pseudonym of Mary Henderson
• 1931 - "The Anatomist"
• 1932 - "Jonah and the Whale"
• 1933 - "A Sleeping Clergyman"
• 1934 - "Marriage is no Joke", "Colonel Wotherspoon"
• 1938 - "The King of Nowhere"
• 1939 - "One Way of Living"
• 1943 - "Mr Bolfry"
• 1947 - "Dr Angelus"
• 1950 - "The Queen's Comedy"

George Douglas Brown 1869-1902
Born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire. Died in
Novelist, Journalist

• 1899 - "Love And A Sword" - published under the pseudonym "Kennedy King"
• 1901 - "The House With The Green Shutters" - published under the pseudonym, "George Douglas", considered his best work
• 1901 - "The Incompatibles" and "The Novelist" - he died before they were complete

Dorothy Kathleen Broster 1877 - 1950
Novelist

Anthologies
• 1957 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
• 1984 - "The Penguin Book of Horror Stories"
  Collections
• 1932 - "A Fire of Driftwood"
• 1942 - "Couching at the Door"
• 1990 - "Betty's Visions and Mrs Smith of Longmains"
  Jacobite Series
• 1926 - "The Flight of the Heron"
• 1927 - "The Gleam in The North"
• 1930 - "The Dark Mile"
  Novels
• 1928 - "Mr. Rowl"
• 1929 - "The Vision Splendid", "The Yellow Poppy"
• 1933 - "Almond, Wild Almond"
• 1937 - "Child Royal", "Ships in the Bay!", "Sir Isumbras At The Ford"
• 1947 - "The Captain's Lady"
• 1951 - "The Wounded Name", "Betty's Visions", "Mrs Smith of Longmains"

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1875-1940
Born in Perth. Died in Montreal
Novelist, Biographer (he wrote 50 books)

Novels
• 1910 - "Prester John"
• 1915 - "The Thirty Nine Steps" - filmed in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock
• 1916 - "Greenmantle"
• 1919 - "Mr Standfast"
• 1924 - "The Three Hostages"
• 1929 - "The Courts of the Morning"
• 1936 - "The Island of Sheep"
• 1941 - "Sick Heart River" - published posthumously
  Biographies
• 1928 - "Montrose"
• 1932 - "Sir Walter Scott"
• 1940 - "Memory Hold-the Door" - his autobiography

Dugald Buchanan 1716-1768
Religious Poet, Translator

• 1767 - Gaelic Translation of the New Testament
• 1768 - "The Day of Judgement", "The Skull"

George Buchanan 1506-1582
Born in Killearn. Died in Edinburgh
Latin Poet, Dramatist, Political Writer

• 1527 - "Franciscanus et Fratres" - political writing
• 1534 - "Baptistes" - a drama
• 1535 - "Somnium" - political writing
• 1578 - "Jepthes" - a drama
• 1555 - "De sphaera" - a Latin poem in 5 books
• 1558 - "Epithalamium" - a poem
• 1579 - "De jure regni apud Scotos" - political writing
• 1582 - "Rerum Scoticarum historia" - a history of Scotland

Robert Burns 1759-1796
Born in Alloway, Ayrshire. Died in Dumfries
Poet, Songwriter

• 1786 - "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" - the Kilmarnock edition, containing 44 poems
• 1787 - The Edinburgh edition was published with an additional 22 poems, including "Tam o' Shanter"
• 1793 - The last edition 2 volumes, added another 19 poems
• 1787-1803 - "The Scots Musical Museum", 6 volumes, the James Johnson collection, including 200 songs of Burns'
• 1793-1818 - "A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice", 8 parts, the George Thomson collection, including 70 songs by Burns.
• 1965 - "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" - contains many of his songs
• 1968 - "The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns", by James Kinsley