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John Buchan, I barone Tweedsmuir (Perth, 26 agosto 1875 – Montréal, 11 febbraio 1940), è stato un romanziere, poeta e politico scozzese. John Buchan
John Buchan was born in Perth on 26 August 1875. Although his father was a Free Church minister who might have been expected to be strict, he was instead a lively character with an enthusiasm for border ballads and other Scots songs which he recited or sang to the family. His mother, on the other hand, epitomised Free Church virtues.
John Buchan cigarette card, 1937. Scottish author John Buchan (1875-1940) wrote one of the most famous and influential adventure stories of the 20th century. He was a prolific author throughout his career, writing histories and biographies as well as thrillers and historical novels.
John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) was a Scottish novelist and public servant who combined a successful career as an author of thrillers, historical novels, histories and biographies with a parallel career in public life. At the time of his death he was Governor-General of Canada. Buchan was educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities.
Beginnings. Buchan was born in Perth, but moved in early infancy to Pathhead, Fife, where his father had been appointed Free Church minister. In 1888, his father was called to the John Knox Church in Glasgow, where Buchan attended Hutcheson’s Grammar School and went on to read Classics at Glasgow University.
John Buchan John Buchan (or ‘JB’) was a prolific writer, best remembered for his ‘shocker’ novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps featuring a hero called Richard Hannay, which has been adapted for film, TV and stage, most memorably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. The list of his published books totals over a hundred, and while only about 40 of these.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, biographer and editor.Outside the field of literature he was, at various times, a barrister, a publisher, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps, the Director of Information—reporting directly to prime minister David Lloyd George—during the First World War and a Unionist MP who served as Governor ...
