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Curtis Yorke (pen name of Susan Rowley Richmond Lee; 1854–1930), writer, novelist; Andrew Young (1885–1971), poet and Presbyterian minister, later Church of England cleric; Douglas Young (1913–1973), poet, scholar and translator; Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889) orientalist, writer of travel books, compiler of the Hobson-Jobson dictionary of ...
Glasgow grew up watching Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy, The Hardy Boys, and Mork and Mindy, among other famous duos from television series, which she cites as inspirations for The Agathas series. [3] She was the coordinator of the University of Minnesota's MFA in Creative Writing program for thirteen years. Before writing her first ...
O'Hagan was born in Glasgow City Centre in 1968, [1] [2] of Irish Catholic descent, and grew up in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire. [3] His mother was a school cleaner, his father worked as a joiner in Paisley, and he had four elder brothers. [1] His father was a violent alcoholic, and as a boy, he would hide books from his father under his bed. [4]
Welsh adapted three of the stories for a later film of the same name, in which he also appeared. Welsh's third book (and second novel), Marabou Stork Nightmares, alternates between a grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa.
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8]
Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire and grew up in Dennistoun, Glasgow, where she attended Thomson Street Primary School and Onslow Drive School. [4] She lived in Gallowgate for a while before moving to Garfield Street, Dennistoun. [ 5 ]
The suspect in the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people on New Year's Day is believed to have acted alone in a "premeditated and evil act," the FBI has said. The latest information is counter ...
Mungo was brought up by Saint Serf who was ministering to the Picts in that area. It was Serf who gave him his popular pet-name. At the age of twenty-five, Mungo began his missionary labours on the Clyde, on the site of modern Glasgow. He built his church across the water from an extinct volcano, next to the Molendinar Burn, where the present ...