Mark A. Smith

Mark was born in Dundee, where he works as a primary school teacher. He lives in Fife and spends mos …

Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness, and studied at Aberdeen and Cambridge Universities, although she ne …

Craig A. Smith

Craig Smith lives in Musselburgh. He’s been many things in his time, but by far the most challenging …

Donald Smith

Donald Smith is Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, a post he has held since 2001 when the …

Jess Smith

Jess Smith is a traditional storyteller from Perthshire. A Traveller, Jess’s chlldhood was spent tra …

Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett was an 18th century novelist and playwright originally from Dumbartonshire, b …

Leela Soma

Leela Soma was a Scottish-based writer who was born in Madras (former name for Chennai) in India, an …

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark was the grande dame of Scottish letters. A prolific writer, she has produced over twent …

Alan Spence

Born in Glasgow in 1947, Alan Spence is an award-winning poet, novelist and playwright. His first po …

Kenneth C Steven

Born in Glasgow in 1968 and raised in Highland Perthshire, Kenneth C. Steven is a widely published n …

D E Stevenson

Dorothy Emily Stevenson was a Scottish author of light romantic novels, many of which were set in th …

Robert Louis Stevenson

One of Edinburgh’s most famous literary sons, Robert Lewis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. …

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic, who wrote fiction and literary c …

Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart’s first book, A Croft in the Hills, was first published in 1960 and has been repri …

Linda Strachan

Children’s author Linda Strachan was born in Edinburgh, but was taught in boarding schools in both A …

Richard Strachan

Richard Strachan is a former bookseller, who lives in Edinburgh with his family. His short fiction h …

Zoë Strachan

Zoë Strachan was born in Irvine and grew up in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. She moved to Glasgow in 1992, …

Charles Stross

Charles Stross, 48, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The a …

Charles Stross

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author …

Maud Sulter

Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in 1960 in …

Anne Swinfen

Ann Swinfen spent her childhood partly in the English Midlands and partly on the east coast of Ameri …

Aline Templeton

Aline Templeton grew up in the East Neuk of Fife and was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews …

Ruth Thomas

Ruth Thomas is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first story collection was shortlisted for the …

Alice Thompson

Author Alice Thompson was born in Edinburgh, and studied English at Oxford University. Her first art …

Francis George Thompson

Francis George Thompson was born in Stornoway in 1931, and after a career as an electrical engineer, …

Derick S Thomson

Professor Derick S. Thomson, or Ruaraidh MacThòmais in his native Gaelic, was a poet, publisher and …

Marion Todd

Marion grew up in the City of Dundee, now home to the magnificent V&A Museum.  Always a keen wri …

Francine Toon

Francine Toon grew up in Sutherland and Fife, Scotland. Her poetry, written as Francine Elena, has a …

David Torrance

David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library and a widely published …

Jeff Torrington

Jeff Torrington wrote just two novels, but his first, (Swing Hammer Swing! won the Whitbread award i …

David Toulmin

Born John Reid on a farm at Rathen in Aberdeenshire, David Toulmin was a farm labourer from the age …

Nigel Tranter

Nigel Tranter was born in Glasgow, but schooled at George Heriot’s in Edinburgh. His childhood inter …

Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi was a prolific writer of novels and essays, of porn (for the Olympia Press in Pari …

Tim Turnbull

Tim Turnbull’s collection Stranded in Sub-Atomica was nominated for the Felix Dennis award for best …

Zoe Venditozzi

Zoe Venditozzi was born in 1975 and grew up in a small village in North East Fife. After graduating …

Shola von Reinhold

Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish socialite and writer. Shola has been published in the Cambridge Lit …

Alan Warner

Wining a Somerset Maugham award for Morvern Callar, the Encore Award for These Demented Lands and th …

Douglas Watt

Douglas Watt was born in Edinburgh and brought up there and in Aberdeen. He was educated at Edinburg …

Roseanne Watt

Roseanne Watt is a writer, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. Her dual-language debut collection, …

Irvine Welsh

Violent, loud, obscene; funny, honest, intelligent – Irvine Welsh’s literature is all this and more. …