Scottish Literature - Nuff Said :)

A

• Lin Anderson

B

• Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (born 1954) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science fiction novels under the second.
• J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), author of Peter Pan among others.
• Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
• George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), Beside the Ocean of Time
• Mary Brunton (1778-1818)
• John Buchan (1875-1940), The Thirty-nine Steps

C

• Keith Charters (born 1965)
• Dominic Cooper (author) (born 1944)
• Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998)
• Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914)
• A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)
• Andrew Crumey (born 1961)

D

• Colin Douglas pseudonym of Colin Thomas Currie (born 1945) Edinburgh medical novels with many thinly-disguised real characters.
• O. Douglas pen name of Anna Masterton Buchan (1877-1948)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of the Lost World, believer in fairies.
• Niall Duthie (born 1947) novelist

G

• Janice Galloway
• Richard Gordon, science fiction.
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
• Alasdair Gray, Lanark
• Andrew Greig
• Neil Gunn, The Silver Darlings

K

• James Kelman
• James Kennaway (1928-1968)

L

• Ross Laidlaw

Mac/Mc

• George MacBeth (1932-1992)
• George MacDonald (1824-1905), Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith
• Iain McDowall
• William McIlvanney (born 1936)
• Pat McIntosh
• Helen Clark MacInnes (1907-1985), suspense novels
• Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Whisky Galore!
• Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare
• Ken MacLeod, (born 1954), science fiction
• Candia McWilliam (born 1955)

M

• Laura Marney
• Bruce Marshall
• Allan Massie
• Rosaline Masson
• Peter May (writer)
• Denise Mina
• Naomi Mitchison
• Neil Munro

O

• Agnes Owens

P

• Andrew Picken (1788-1833)

R

• Ian Rankin (born 1960)

S

• Andrew Murray Scott (born 1955), novelist[1]
• Michael Scott (1789-1835)
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
• Alan Sharp (born 1934)
• Nan Shepherd (1893-1981)
• Sara Sheridan (born 1968)
• Ali Smith (born 1962)
• Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998), Consider the Lilies
• Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
• D. E. Stevenson (1892-1973)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island etc.
• Luke Sutherland (born 1971)

T

• Nigel Tranter, (1909–2000), Scottish historical novels, westerns, contemporary adventure, children's books, non-fiction (history, Scotland, Scottish architecture).

W

• Alan Warner (born 1964)
• William Watson (1931-2005)
• Irvine Welsh (born 1958)
• George Whyte-Melville (1821-1878)
• David Wishart
• David Wolstencroft (born 1969)