Allan Massie

Allan Massie is the author of eighteen highly praised novels as well as non-fiction works on Muriel Spark a study of twelve emperors of ancient Rome a history of crime in 19th-century Edinburgh and the acclaimed Glasgow: Portraits of a City. Born in Singapore in 1938 he was brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Glenalmond School and Trinity College Cambridge where he read history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge of the Booker Prize. He is also a journalist contributing to the Scottish and English press. He is married has three children and lives in the Scottish Borders.