Scottish Renaissance - Scottish Renaissance Figures

Scottish Renaissance Figures

Other people connected with the Scottish renaissance, not mentioned previously, are listed below.

Note: These figures were not all contemporaries of the first generation of Scottish Renaissance writers and artists who emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. However, most did become involved with the movement in some form through interactions with figures such as Gunn or MacDiarmid, even if at a slightly later date.

• George Blake (novelist)
• Alan Bold (MacDiarmid's biographer and critic)
• James Bridie (playwright)
• Catherine Carswell (novelist, biographer of Robert Burns and D.H. Lawrence)
• A.J. Cronin (doctor, novelist)
• Helen Cruickshank (poet, who provided a focal point for the social scene)
• Robert Garioch (poet)
• George Campbell Hay (poet, translator)
• John MacDougall Hay (novelist, journalist, father of George Campbell Hay)
• Jessie Kesson (novelist, playwright)
• Archie Lamont (poet, nationalist pamphleteer)
• William Lamb (artist) (sculptor)
• Maurice Lindsay (poet, critic)
• Eric Linklater (novelist and politician)
• Norman MacCaig (poet)
• William McCance (painter)
• Fionn MacColla (novelist, historian)
• Compton MacKenzie (novelist, journalist)
• Robert McLellan (Scots language dramatist)
• F. Marian McNeill (folklorist)
• Naomi Mitchison (novelist, memoirist, activist)
• Edwin Morgan (poet, not to be confused with Edwin Muir)
• Willa Muir (novelist, translator)
• Nan Shepherd (novelist, poet)
• Tom Scott (poet, translator, critic)
• Derick Thomson (poet)
• Douglas Young (poet, translator, essayist)

People generally considered to be post-renaissance but strongly affected by it:

• William Neill (poet)
• James Robertson (novelist and poet)
• Iain Crichton Smith (poet, novelist)