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Norman MacCaig 1910-
Born in Edinburgh.
Poet, Novelist, Editor
- 1943 - "Far Cry"
- 1946 - "The Inward Eye"
- 1955 - "Riding Lights"
- 1957 - "The Sinai Sort"
- 1960 - "A Common Grace"
- 1965 - "Measures"
- 1968 - "Rings on a Tree"
- 1969 - "A Man in My Position"
- 1970 - "Contemporary Scottish Verse" - edited with Alexander Scott
- 1971 - "Selected Poems"
John MacCodrum
Gaelic Poet
- Elegy for Sir James MacDonald of Sleat
- Was also a writer of satirical and humorous verse
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892-1978
Born in Langholm.
Poet, Journalist, Editor
- 1925 - "Sangschaw" - the lyrics of Hugh MacDiarmid
- 1926 - "Penny Wheep", "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"
- 1930 - "To Circumjack Cencrastus"
- 1932 - "Scots Unbound"
- 1934 - "Stony Limits"
- 1935 - "Second Hymn to Lenin"
- 1947 - "A Kist of Whistles"
- 1955 - "In Memoriam James Joyce"
George MacDonald 1824-1905
Born in Huntly. Died in Ashtead, Surrey
Poet, Novelist
- 1855 - "Within and Without" - a poetic tragedy
- 1858 - "Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women"
- 1895 - "Lilith"
- 1871 - "At the Back of the North Wind"
- 1872 - "The Princess and the Goblin" - considered his best work
- 1873 - "The Princess and Curdie"
Robert Mackay (Rob Donn) 1714-78
Gaelic Poet
- Was a writer of satirical and humorous verse
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie 1883-1972
Born in West Hartlepool. Died in Edinburgh
Novelist, Biographer, Playwright
Novels
- 1912 - "Carnival"
- 1913-14 - "Sinister Street"
- 1919 - "Poor Relations"
- 1921 - "Rich Relatives"
- 1927 - "Vestal Fire"
- 1928 - "Extraordinary Women"
- 1932 - "Greek Memories"
- 1933 - "Water on the Brain"
- 1941 - "The Monarch of the Glen"
- 1947 - "Whisky Galore" - made into a film
Plays
- 1906 - "The Gentleman in Grey"
- 1920 - "Columbine"
- 1931 - "The Lost Cause"
Memoirs
- 1963 - "My Life and Times: Octave One"
- 1971 - "My Life and Times: Octave Ten"
Henry Mackenzie 1745-1831
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Edinburgh
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Editor
- 1771 - "The Man of Feeling" - his best work
- 1773 - "The Man of the World"
- 1777 - "Julia de Roubigne"
Alistair MacLean ("Ian Stuart") 1922-1987
Born in Glasgow. Died in Munich, Germany
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Screen Playwright, Biographer
As Ian Stuart:
- 1960 - "Dark Crusader"
- 1961 - "Satan Bug" - made into a film
As Alistair MacLean
- 1954 - "The Dileas" - a short story
- "HMS Ulysses" - his most successful
- "Guns of Navarone" - made into a film
- "South by Java Head" - made into a film
- "Where Eagles Dare" - a screenplay, made into a film.
- "Breakheart Pass" - a film
- "Heritage Tower" - a film
- 1972 - "Biography of Captain Cook"
Mary MacLeod 1615-1706
Born in Rowdil, Harris. Died in Dunvegan, Skye
Gaelic Poet. A writer of moving, emotional and melodic poetry of the Gaels
James MacPherson 1736-1796
Born in Ruthven, Inverness. Died in Belville, Inverness
Poet
- 1758 - "The Highlander"
- 1760 - "Fragments of Ancient Poetry" - translated from the Gallic or Erse language
- 1762 - "Fingal"
- 1763 - "Temora"
Gavin Maxwell 1914-1969
Born in Wigtown. Died in Inverness
Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Journalist
- 1952 - "Harpoon at a Venture"
- 1956 - "God Protect me From my Friends"
- 1959 - "The Pains of Death"
- 1958 - "A Reed Shaken by the Wind"
- 1960 - "Ring of Bright Water" - made into a film
- 1963 - "The Rocks Remain"
William Topaz McGonagall 1825-1902
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Edinburgh
Poet (reputed to be the worst poet in the world)
- "Adventures of King Robert the Bruce"
- "An Address to the New Tay Bridge"
- "An Autumn Reverie"
- "An Ode to the Queen"
- "Edinburgh"
- "Forget-Me-Not"
- "Glasgow"
- "Jottings of New York"
- "Loch Leven"
- "Robert Burns"
- "Saving a Train"
- "The Battle of Bannockburn"
- "The Burial of the Reverend Gilfillan"
- "The Famous Tay Whale"
- "The Moon"
- "The Newport Railway"
- "The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay"
- "The Rattling Boy from Dublin"
- "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
- "To the Reverend George Gilfillan"
Alexander McLachlan 1818-1896
Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire. Died in Ontario, Canada
Poet - known as "The Burns of Canada"
- 1900 - "The Poetical works of Alexander McLachlan" - published posthumously
Robert McLellan 1907-1985
Born in Linmill, Lanarkshire. Died in Arran
Playwright, Poet
- 1933 - "Jeddart Justice"
- 1934 - "Tarfessock", "The Changeling"
- 1935 - "Cian and Eithne"
- 1936 - "Toon Byres"
- 1937 - "Jamie the Saxt"
- 1939 - "Portrait of an Artist"
- 1946 - "Torwatletie"
- 1947 - "The Flouers o' Edinburgh", "The Carlin Moth"
- 1948 - "The Cailleach"
- 1949 - "The Smuggler"
- 1951 - "Mary Stewart"
- 1954 - "The Road to the Isles"
- 1956 - "Sweet Largie Bay"
- 1962 - "Young Auchinleck"
- 1965 - "Arran Burn"
- 1967 - "The Hypocrite"
- 1977 - "Linmill and Other Stories"
- 1981 - "Collected Plays"
Hugh Miller 1802-1856
Born in Cromarty. Died in Edinburgh
Geological Writer, Newspaper Editor
- 1841 - "The Old Red Sandstone"
- 1849 - "Footprints of the Creator"
Alexander Montgomerie c1545-c1611
Makaris Poet
- 1597 - "The Cherrie and the Slaye"
- 1621 - "The Flytting Betwixt Montgomerie and Polwart"
Edwin Muir 1887-1959
Born in Deerness, Orkney. Died in Cambridge
Poet, Novelist, Translator
- 1924 - "Latitudes"
- 1927 - "Transition", "The Marionette"
- 1946 - "The Voyage"
- 1949 - "The Labyrinth"
- 1954 - "Autobiography"
- 1960 - "Collected Poems" - published posthumously
Neil Munro ("Hugh Foulis") 1864-1930
Born in Inverary. Died in Helensburgh
Journalist, Playwright, Novelist, Poet
- 1896 - "The Lost Pibroch"
- 1898 - "John Splendid"
- 1899 - "Gillian the Dreamer"
- 1902 - "Doom Castle"
- 1901 - "The Shoes of Fortune"
- 1903 - "Children of Tempest"
- 1904 - "Erchie, my Droll Friend"
- 1906 - "The Vital Spark"
- 1907 - "The Clyde, River and Firth", "The Daft Days"
- 1910 - "Fancy Farm"
- 1911 - "In Highland Harbours with Para Handy"
- 1912 - "Ayrshire Idylls"
- 1914 - "The New Road" - accepted as his best known work
- 1917 - "Jimmy Swan, the Joy Traveller"
- 1918 - "Jaunty Jock"
- 1920 - "The 51st Highland Division"
- 1923 - "Hurricane Jack"
- 1928 - "History of the Royal Bank of Scotland"
- 1923 - "Para Handy and Other Tales"
- 1931 - "The Brave Days", "Poetry", edited by J. Buchan - both published posthumously
- 1933 - "The Pirate Ship", "The Looker-On" - both published posthumously
Charles Murray 1864-1941
Born in Alford, Aberdeenshire. Died in Banchory, Kincardineshire
Poet (in the "Doric" style)
- 1900 - "Hamewith"
- 1942 - Poems published posthumously by The Charles Murray Memorial Trust