Use the interactive map to take the tour from the Scottish Borders around the country to Edinburgh to visit the birthplaces of almost 50 famous writers who were born in Scotland.
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Interactive Map
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Famous authors born in Scotland
Take the tour from the Scottish Borders around the country to Edinburgh to visit the birthplaces of almost 50 famous writers who were born in Scotland.
The map above includes authors listed in the following table. If you are looking for a particular author you can sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Note, the table entries do not link directly into the interactive map.
| Author | Birthplace |
|---|---|
| Hugh MacDiarmid | Langholm |
| James Hogg | Ettrick |
| Robert Burns | Alloway |
| William McIlvanney | Kilmarnock |
| Liam McIlvanney | Kilmarnock |
| Janice Galloway | Saltcoats |
| Christopher Brookmyre | Barrhead |
| Denise Mina | East Kilbride |
| Liz Lochhead | Craigneuk |
| Robin Jenkins | Flemington |
| Alistair MacLean | Shettleston |
| Alasdair Gray | Riddrie |
| Carol Ann Duffy | Gorbals |
| Nigel Tranter | Glasgow |
| Andrew O'Hagan | Glasgow |
| Debi Gliori | Glasgow |
| Iain Crichton Smith | Glasgow |
| Peter May | Glasgow |
| Edwin Morgan | West End, Glasgow |
| James Kelman | Govan |
| Stuart MacBride | Dumbarton |
| A. J. Cronin | Cardross |
| Lin Anderson | Greenock |
| Neil Munro | Inverary |
| Alan Warner | Connel |
| Ken MacLeod | Stornoway |
| George Mackay Brown | Stromness |
| Neil M. Gunn | Dunbeath |
| Ali Smith | Inverness |
| Jessie Kesson | Inverness |
| George MacDonald | Huntly |
| Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Auchterless |
| Nan Shepherd | Peterculter |
| J. M. Barrie | Kirriemuir |
| A. L. Kennedy | Dundee |
| James Robertson | Bridge of Allan |
| Iain Banks | Dunfermline |
| Dorothy Dunnett | Dunfermline |
| Ian Rankin | Cardenden |
| Adam Smith | Kircaldy |
| Val McDermid | Kircaldy |
| Irvine Welsh | Leith |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Edinburgh |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Edinburgh |
| Kenneth Grahame | Edinburgh |
| Walter Scott | Edinburgh |
| Jackie Kay | Edinburgh |
| Muriel Spark | Bruntsfield |
| Margaret Oliphant | Wallyford |
