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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 ...
John Buchan. John Buchan, 'bʌxən, från 1935 1:e baron Tweedsmuir (alias Lord Tweedsmuir ), född 26 augusti 1875 i Perth, Perth and Kinross, död 11 februari 1940 i Montréal, Québec, var en brittisk författare av äventyrs- och spionromaner samt Kanadas generalguvernör från 1935 fram till sin död.
Zudem war John Buchan ab 1918 als Jurymitglied im Komitee der Vergabe des Hawthornden-Preises tätig, dem ältesten Literaturpreis in Großbritannien. [1] [2] Im Jahr 1927 wurde er zum Parlamentsabgeordneten der schottischen Konservativen gewählt. 1934/35 vertrat Buchan als Lord High Commissioner den Monarchen bei der Generalsynode der Church of Scotland .
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) was a British statesman and writer, today mostly remembered for his fine adventure stories. Buchan was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford, and began to write and publish stories from his college days. He later qualified as a lawyer and went to South Africa to work there in a government ...
John Buchan, Primul Baron de Tweedsmuir (n. 26 august 1875, Perth, Scoția, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 11 februarie 1940, Montréal, provincia Québec, Canada) a fost un scriitor scoțian, istoric și politician. Este cel mai cunoscut pentru romanul său Cele treizeci și nouă de trepte (1915), care a fost adaptat ca ...
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year.
Élete Ifjúkora. Buchan Skóciában született 1875. augusztus 26-án. Pathead bányavárosában nőtt fel, idősebb John Buchan és Helen Masterson gyermekeként. Édesapja és édesanyja erős nemzeti érzelműek voltak, s így ugyanez igaz lett gyermekeikre.
