John Buchan

John Buchan was born in 1875 in Perth, Scotland, the son of a Free Church of Scotland minister, and grew up in Fife and Glasgow, spending summers in the Scottish Borders. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he began publishing novels and essays. He trained as a lawyer, then worked from 1901 to 1903 on the staff of Lord Milner in South Africa after the Boer War. Back in London he became a partner in a publishing firm. During the First World War he worked in war propaganda and intelligence and wrote a history of the war. His thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), in which Richard Hannay, an ordinary man, is chased across Scotland after uncovering a German spy plot, was a great success and was later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote many more adventure novels and biographies, including lives of Montrose and Walter Scott. He was a member of Parliament for the Scottish universities, and in 1935 he became Lord Tweedsmuir and governor general of Canada. He died in office in Montreal in 1940.

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